perjurous

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English

Adjective

perjurous (comparative more perjurous, superlative most perjurous)

  1. Alternative form of perjurious
    The witness made perjurous statements under oath.
    The judgment will be set aside based on the client's perjurous answer to the judge's direct questions.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
      something even in the official's self-possessed and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his specifications strangely reminded him of a bandsman, a perjurous witness in a capital case before a courtmartial ashore of which when a lieutenant, he, Captain Vere, had been a member.