perjure
verb (used with object)
to render (oneself ) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation.
was perjuring
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past progressiveof perjure.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The apparent purpose was to make MacDonald out a habitual liar who was perjuring himself now no less than he may have done at the Billings-Mooney trials.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unfortunately, the witness who gave this testimony bore a very indifferent character, and I could see that more than one of the jurors suspected that he was perjuring himself.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke
Either Mr. Knight was telling what he believed to be true, or he was perjuring himself.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
The man was perjuring himself, under his own counsel's persistent questioning on a point which that counsel had evidently been warned by him to avoid.
From The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green
He turned very red again as he spoke, he felt he was perjuring himself horribly.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
