false witness

Noun

Meaning

a person who deliberately gives false testimony

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

perjurer cheat liar perjury deceiver phony falsifier prevaricator dissimulator fibber equivocator fabulist fabricator con artist pseudologist

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Antonyms

reliable person truthteller truth-teller fair person frank person credible witness

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Hypernyms

liar prevaricator

Examples

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. John Lancaster Spalding

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation. Pat Robertson

But the case has been riddled with controversy from accusations of false witness accounts and police interference. Source: Internet

Bearing False Witness?: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult: Praeger. Source: Internet

These egregious miscarriages of justice formed the basis of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Dorothy Rabinowitz’s book, No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, And Other Terrors Of Our Times. Source: Internet

The Bible tells us that among the things that are detestable to God are “a false tongue” and “a false witness that launches forth lies”-Proverbs 6:16-19. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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