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Recent Examples of perjurer
Martinez called Mejia a shameless perjurer who became a government witness only after reviewing the evidence against him and realizing he was caught dead to rights for his own crimes.
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson).
—Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
He’s been denounced as a perjurer by some pundits and mocked by late-night talk show hosts.
—oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019
Kasowitz and, more importantly, Trump himself are calling Comey a perjurer.
—Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, has characterized Comey as a leaker, a liar, and a perjurer—explosive allegations that were subsequently echoed by the president of the United States.
—Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 13 June 2017
Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson).
—Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
He’s been denounced as a perjurer by some pundits and mocked by late-night talk show hosts.
—oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2019
Kasowitz and, more importantly, Trump himself are calling Comey a perjurer.
—Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, has characterized Comey as a leaker, a liar, and a perjurer—explosive allegations that were subsequently echoed by the president of the United States.
—Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 13 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjurer
Noun
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During closing arguments on Tuesday, defense attorneys tried to portray Serrano as a pathological liar whose testimony could not be trusted.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
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The resolution, sponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), has backing from some of Trump’s biggest supporters in the Senate as well as those who are outspoken in their views that Putin is a liar and murderer.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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The Hall of Fame, many argue, is already full of bad actors, cheaters and racists.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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The League of Legends maker’s anti-cheat director spoke with TechCrunch about using a tool called Vanguard, which sits deep inside a Windows operating system to determine if any cheaters have installed code or tampered with a gamer’s computer.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 July 2024
Noun
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Trying to keep the population safe from a novel infectious disease, battling to understand the virus, but also navigating people's suspicion of vaccines and science, and their desire to use bleach and ivermectin, egged on by charlatans.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
Noun
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That’s where discipline separates professionals from pretenders.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Sorting the contenders from pretenders Here’s a quick rundown of where every team stands after the Jets eked out a Game 5 win over the upstart Blues last night in whiteout Winnipeg.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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There will always be bugs, exploits, cheats or simply overpowered options to reduce the challenge in any game.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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But a rolling pin with numeric markers provides an easy cheat when measuring out the length or diameter of doughs.—
Lauren Joseph,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Perjurer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjurer. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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