false witness
false witness · false witnesses
брехня, неправда
лжесвидетель
Lüge, Kindslage
A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witnessA perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
» Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
carlosalberto · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, usually)A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
лжесвиде́тельlžesvidételʹ
(countable, uncountable, usually)Deceptive public statements.
Near-synonyms: slander, calumny, libel, defamation, lying, lie
to bear false witness
More definitions
- a person who deliberately gives false testimony
Examples
1 sentencesThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Translations
4 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
a perjurer:
Forms
plural: false witnesses| Singular | false witness |
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regular
Synonyms
9 synonymsClose in meaning
- a person who deliberately gives false testimony:perjurer
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.