perjure

“He specifically told me, ‘I don’t want you to perjure yourself, but "I don’t recall" isn’t perjury.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022

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

“So the good, the pious, the saintly Lilian Strange can perjure herself in a way the most unregenerate would shrink from,” he sneers.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

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

The greedy tradesman blasphemes over his losses; he lies and perjures himself over the price of his wares.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

"The man's a spy, an informer, a paid liar, a villain that takes gold and perjures himself."

From The Northern Iron by George A. Birmingham

"You cannot call a person a liar, that's not on, that's implying someone has perjured themselves in court," he said.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

Other times he has come out fuming, like on Wednesday when he accused the government of lying after one of his lawyers alleged a witness had perjured himself.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

"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

The man was perjuring himself, under his own counsel's persistent questioning on a point which that counsel had evidently been warned by him to avoid.

From The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green