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
I was a black sinner, too—a man who was perjuring his soul with lies—and they were told and acted for her sake, and she knew it.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
There must be an oath drawn in language too precise to be explained away, in language which no Jacobite could repeat without the consciousness that he was perjuring himself.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
