perjure

Jones on Tuesday called Bellis a tyrant and said she would be forcing him to perjure himself and say “that I’m guilty and to say that I’m a liar.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

“If the president were to perjure himself, tamper with witness testimony or corruptly destroy evidence, then such actions would violate well-established law,” the memo stated.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

The fact that prosecutors will offer immunity could mean that they believe she did not perjure herself and that Peterson’s conviction will stand, Rahmani said.

From Fox News ● Feb. 8, 2022

Why did Wade give false witness and perjure himself on the witness stand?

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2019

"If you hadn't ast 'em over," I says, "we'd of been just as well off and you wouldn't of had to make a perjure out o' yourself."

From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Ring Lardner

He perjures himself in public all the time.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2018

Spector’s wife perjures herself to cover for him without knowing the truth.

From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015

But his commander perjures himself, and Carrington's wife, who could save the day, refuses to help.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a marvel of discretion, and the way in which she perjures her soul for the sake of the practice is a constant weight upon my conscience.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

But the thief-takers have Claude Duval by the throat at last; and there is a scene in court, where the young lady perjures herself unhesitatingly, and faints once more in the prisoner's arms.

From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville

In his Soldier F judgement, Judge Lynch said that some of the soldiers had perjured themselves.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

He was still on the witness stand when Forbes, whose reporters had discussed the size disparity with Weisselberg and revealed it publicly in 2017, published an article on its website suggesting he had perjured himself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

"Mr. Kise...my role is to get the witness to testify. If he perjured himself yesterday or he perjured himself today, I don't care. I just want him to testify," the judge said.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2023

In 2005 things began to unravel when Stepp admitted he had perjured himself in testimony against Dunn.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2023

“Iss!” said Demi the perjured, blissfully sucking his sugar, and regarding his first attempt as eminently successful.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

She noted Ms Ventura's lawsuit settlement, asking, "why risk it all by perjuring herself at a federal trial?"

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

Latham is also accused of perjuring herself by lying about her involvement in a federal court deposition in 2022.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

Paradis has previously accused Feuer of knowing about wrongdoing in the case and has accused the former city attorney of perjuring himself during a 2019 deposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

She also claimed that Passantino was aware of Hutchinson’s knowledge of Ornato’s story — and that when she expressed concerns to him about lying to investigators, Passantino reassured her that she was not perjuring herself.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

All the while the lawyers were glaring upon him as though he was perjuring himself with every word—as who would not be, under the circumstances?

From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton