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Noun: false witness  fols wit-nus
  1. A person who deliberately gives false testimony
    "The false witness was charged with lying under oath during the trial";
    - perjurer

Type of: deceiver, fabricator, fibber [informal], fibster [archaic], liar, prevaricator, storyteller

Encyclopedia: False witness