perjurous
English edit
Adjective edit
perjurous (comparative more perjurous, superlative most perjurous)
- Alternative form of perjurious
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd[1], 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.
- 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.