perjured
adjective
[ ˈpəːdʒəd ]
• (of evidence) involving wilfully told untruths; characterized by perjury.
• "she was charged with giving perjured evidence in a court of law"
perjure
verb
• wilfully tell an untruth or make a misrepresentation under oath; commit perjury.
• "she admitted that she had perjured herself"
Similar:
lie under oath,
lie,
commit perjury,
give false evidence/testimony,
forswear oneself,
be forsworn,
bear false witness/testimony,
swear falsely,
Origin:
late Middle English (as perjured in the sense ‘guilty of perjury’): from Old French parjurer, from Latin perjurare ‘swear falsely’, from per- ‘to ill effect’ + jurare ‘swear’.
