swear falsely
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“If you swear falsely to Congress, just like if you swear falsely to a court or in an affidavit, that’s a crime. It’s a felony and it can carry heavy consequences,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
Within a month he had persuaded two prominent members of the influential local German community to swear, falsely, that he had resided in the country for five years and to sponsor him for citizenship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nay, dear lord, for I have sworn Not to swear falsely twice.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Every man now, who has a cause in your civil courts, seems to think it necessary either to swear falsely himself, or to get others to do it for him.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
Ordinarily, if a man intends to swear falsely to a test oath there is no way of preventing him.
From The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 by Edwin C. Woolley
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