Synonyms for perjurious
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
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WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "act of swearing to a statement known to be false," via Anglo-French perjurie (late 13c.) and Old French parjurée "perjury, false witness," both from Latin periurium "a false oath," from periurare "swear falsely," from per- "away, entirely" (see per) + iurare "to swear" (see jury (n.)). Related: Perjurious.
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