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They did not charge her with theft. They charged her for perjury during her testimony to the grand jury.perjury = the criminal offense of telling lies in court after formally promising to tell the truth
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She signed a written declaration under penalty of perjury.perjury = the criminal offense of lying after formally promising to tell the truth
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They just came and arrested me and told me I had been indicted for perjury. (source)perjury = making false statements
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DANFORTH, containing himself: I will tell you this—you are either lying now, or you were lying in the court, and in either case you have committed perjury and you will go to jail for it. (source)
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Perjurers were being threatened with jail. (source)Perjurers = people guilty of giving untrue testimony
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It's my opinion that he committed black perjury in the Landor case. (source)perjury = the criminal offense of making false statements under oath
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"If you tell that story," I said, trying not to sound too argumentative, "you'll be admitting you've committed perjury all these years."† (source)perjury = the criminal offense of telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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Clarence is come, false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, That stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury.† (source)perjured = broke the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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Nor was I in any legal risk, as long as I didn't perjure myself.† (source)perjure = break the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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"Remember, perjurer, about the horse," He made reply who had the swollen belly, "And rueful be it thee the whole world knows it."† (source)perjurer = someone who breaks the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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He knew that there were some perjuries which, being so superstitious, she would not commit, and besides, the fear, which had hitherto restrained his curiosity, of making Odette angry if he questioned her, of making himself odious, had ceased to exist now that he had lost all hope of ever being loved by her.† (source)
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There's no way he can write the report Verringer desires without perjuring himself.† (source)perjuring = breaking the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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From "D. R. Anthony and others," he received a wire informing him that "Kansas repudiates you as she does all perjurers and skunks."† (source)
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The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship.† (source)unperjured = not having lied under oathstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperjured means not and reverses the meaning of perjured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The worst-case scenario is that she commits perjury on the stand and gets charged with it.† (source)perjury = the criminal offense of telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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Judge Scott did not know all things, and he did not know that he was party to a police conspiracy, that the evidence was hatched and perjured, that Jim Hall was guiltless of the crime charged.† (source)perjured = broke the law by telling lies after formally promising to tell the truth
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