subornverb [ T ]
/səˈbɔːn//səˈbɔːrn/specialistto persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law:
He is a liar, and he suborned perjury from her early on in this investigation.
Such agreements could undermine the justice system by providing an incentive to suppress evidence, or even to suborn witnesses.
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- He may also have suborned perjury by urging another girlfriend to swear falsely that they were not lovers.
- The massive drug profits are used to finance operations and suborn officials.
- He apparently did try unsuccessfully to induce David's mentor to fire him, but that is a far cry from suborning perjury.
- He used his police connections and enormous sums of cash to suborn law enforcement all along the smuggling routes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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Fraud & corruption