'Perjury' definitions:
Definition of 'perjury'
(from WordNet)
noun
Criminal offense of making false statements under oath [syn: perjury, bearing false witness, lying under oath]
Definition of 'Perjury'
From: GCIDE
- Perjury \Per"ju*ry\, n.; pl. Perjuries. [L. perjurium. See Perjure, v.]
- 1. False swearing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations. [1913 Webster]
- Note: If a man swear falsely in nonjudicial affidavits, it is made perjury by statute in some jurisdictions in the United States. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'perjury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artfulness,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- equivocation,
- exaggeration,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseheartedness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- perversion,
- prevarication,
- sharp practice,
- straining,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness