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testilies

testilies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of testilie.

Meaning of testilie

Verb

testilie (third-person singular simple present testilies, present participle testilying, simple past and past participle testilied)

  1. (US, euphemistic, informal) To commit perjury (as a police officer).
    • In Manhattan, grand jury prosecutors are urged to interview police officers separately if there is any possibility they may be fabricating evidence or about to testilie.1999 January, Larry Cunningham, “Taking on Testilying”, in Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 18, →DOI, pages 26–40

Questions about testilies

What is testilies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Testilies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of testilie.

Words near testilies in the dictionary

  1. testifieth
  2. testify
  3. testifying
  4. testilie
  5. testilied
  6. testilies
  7. testily
  8. testilying
  9. testimonial
  10. testimonialise
  11. testimonialised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: testilies (page history and authors); testilie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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