English

Adjective

perjurous ‎(comparative more perjurous, superlative most perjurous)

1. Alternative spelling of perjurious
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,

     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.