perjury

The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Smith denied this, and Schmitt grinned as if he’d just effectively locked Smith in jail forever on perjury charges.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

By misrepresenting nonsensical evidence, he accused Smith of perjury.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some of this was surely deliberate, to protect himself against perjury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Perl was eventually tried and cleared of the espionage charges, but he was convicted of perjury for lying about his association with the Rosenbergs.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

This, Denery points out, gave liars some flexibility: They could perhaps justify their perjuries with a crop of favorable outcomes—not just for their neighbors, but for themselves too.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2015

The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Erst the sire Of gods, detesting perjuries and fraud, Which that deceitful race so much employ'd, Chang'd to an animal deform'd their shapes; Where still a likeness and unlikeness seems To man.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

Tertullian in his De Baptismo says that they were promised in consequence "regeneration and the pardon of all their perjuries."

From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot