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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The violation of an oath; perjury.

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Examples

  • They could broaden their little, lost war to include Iran, and leave the new Democratic administration and freshly minted, bloody-handed, instrumental, oath-breaking, Democrat-controlled Congress with a swarming hornets nest of unpredictable and inextricable relations.

    Stan Goff: The Disposable Oath 2008

  • Sticking to his manifesto promise would differentiate Salmond pleasingly from the oath-breaking Mr Brown, and would allow his voters a surrogate vote on sovereignty.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Richard 2007

  • Sticking to his manifesto promise would differentiate Salmond pleasingly from the oath-breaking Mr Brown, and would allow his voters a surrogate vote on sovereignty.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • I don't know about you, but I am sick and damn tired of having my intelligence insulted on a daily basis by the self-serving, oath-breaking, law flouting, Constitution-shredding, murderous politicos inside the Beltway.

    Arlen Specter: The Puppet's Puppet 2006

  • He suggests that these might have contributed to the accusations of treachery and oath-breaking levelled at both sides, if each had a different idea of what the agreements meant.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Carla 2006

  • He suggests that these might have contributed to the accusations of treachery and oath-breaking levelled at both sides, if each had a different idea of what the agreements meant.

    The English Resistance: The Underground War Against the Normans Carla 2006

  • I think it would also be good if we could restore a taboo about oath-breaking.

    Senator Feingold lectures at the Law School. Ann Althouse 2005

  • So, no, you don't give to a shameless, lying, oath-breaking president any kind of credit for an improvement in the nation's moral atmosphere which he has polluted with his lack of integrity, and which the Democrats have polluted by circling the wagons around that lack of integrity.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: CNN/"Los Angeles Times" Host Republican Presidential Debate - March 2, 2000 2000

  • And if you can't do it, by the way, in this election year, economy booming, world relatively at peace, if we don't go out and attack that moral flank exposed by Bill Clinton's lying, perfidy, oath-breaking, and utter shameless betrayal of our moral heritage, we will lose and we will deserve to lose.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: South Carolina Republican Debate - February 15, 2000 2000

  • And if you can't do it, by the way, in this election year, economy booming, world relatively at peace, if we don't go out and attack that moral flank exposed by Bill Clinton's lying, perfidy, oath-breaking, and utter shameless betrayal of our moral heritage, we will lose and we will deserve to lose.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: South Carolina Republican Debate - February 15, 2000 2000

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