swear falsely
Example Sentences
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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
Neither for love nor lands will I recreant or swear falsely.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
But the law will free them if they have really done no wrong, and, what is more, it will punish those who swear falsely against them.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains or Bessie King's Strange Adventure by Stewart, Jane L.
Who has ever been known to swear falsely upon the Donagh, without being visited by a tremendous punishment, either on the spot, or in twenty-four hours after his perjury?
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
