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Перевод: perjure
[глагол] давать ложное показание; нарушать клятву; лжесвидетельствовать
Тезаурус:
- "I sometimes" she began, ready to lie her head off - only to get abruptly cut off before she could perjure herself completely.
- "You see" (I would explain, I would be reasonable), "even if I were willing to perjure myself, I'd never get away with it.
- For the authorities, it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out; for the authors, it means that they do not have to perjure themselves, and has the additional benefit that the gaps - and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work - are obvious to their readers.
- "I can't perjure myself."
- It was true that I would never perjure myself.
- And Mr Mitchum wouldn't perjure himself.
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