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Meanings of perjury in English
Intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth.
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perjuri Usage of perjury in English
1
They include perjury, abuse of power, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
2
He had 15 charges including bribery, money laundering, perjury and firearms offences.
3
Cairns was subsequently acquitted of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
4
Clinton agreed to testify and was later accused of perjury and obstruction.
5
The former cricketer Chris Cairns has been charged with perjury in London.
6
Before the Pope they charged her with securing the divorce by perjury.
7
The annals of crime scarcely contain a more gross example of perjury.
8
Hold, old man; swear not and taint not thy soul with perjury.
9
The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury, were arbitrary.
10
You mean that the worthy woman rates her perjury at that price.
11
The charge of perjury at any rate, is groundless as against thee.
12
The senate sought to punish him, not for perjury but for sacrilege.
13
You saved that guilty fellow by a careful and remarkable perjury to-day.
14
To deny it is to commit perjury even more blatant than previously.
15
About obstruction of justice, perjury, and being an accessory to a homicide.
16
Judge to decide whether Pennsylvania official will face perjury trial HARRISBURG, Pa.
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