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perjurer:
(plural: ‘perjurers‘)
a person who gives false witness (wrong statements/telling lies) under oath in a court of law,
(perjury = the act, an offence, of saying untrue, wrong or misleading statements/telling lies under oath in a court of law; ‘under oath’ = the act of sincerely promising that he/she will tell the truth in a court of law, i.e. before a judge)
e.g.
The former president of the USA, Bill Clinton, was declared a perjurer when he deliberately told lies under oath in a court of law.
Perjury is a crime and the perjurer is subjected to criminal charges.
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