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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. criminal offense of making false statements under oath;
[syn: perjury, bearing false witness, lying under oath]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Perjury \Per"ju*ry\, n.; pl. Perjuries. [L. perjurium. See Perjure, v.] 1. False swearing. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations. [1913 Webster] Note: If a man swear falsely in nonjudicial affidavits, it is made perjury by statute in some jurisdictions in the United States. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "perjury": artfulness, coloring, confabulation, craftiness, credibility gap, deceitfulness, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, false coloring, false swearing, falseheartedness, falsification, falsifying, forswearing, fraud, insincerity, intrigue, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, miscoloring, misconstruction, misrepresentation, misstatement, perversion, prevarication, sharp practice, straining, uncandidness, uncandor, unfrankness, unsincereness, untruthfulness