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False witness   /fɔls wˈɪtnəs/   Listen
False witness

noun
1.
A person who deliberately gives false testimony.  Synonym: perjurer.



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"False witness" Quotes from Famous Books



... morals it is safe to say that they would neither of them have broken either the sixth, seventh, or eighth commandments; but they bore false witness freely—not in open assertion, however, for that could be easily refuted, and fair fight was not at all in their line. But when false witness could be meanly conveyed by implication and innuendo, it formed the staple ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... false witness was the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D., who proceeds to state that the story of the Rev. J.D. Wickham, D. D., is corroborated by older citizens of New Rochelle. The names of these ancient residents are withheld. According to these unknown witnesses, ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll



Words linked to "False witness" :   prevaricator, bearing false witness, liar, perjurer



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