testilieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

testilie (三人称単数 現在形 testilies, 現在分詞 testilying, 過去形および過去分詞形 testilied)

1. (US, law, informal, euphemistic) To commit perjury (as a police officer).
   • 1999 January, Larry Cunningham, “Taking on Testilying”, in Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 18, DOI:10.1080/0731129X.1999.9992064, pages 26–40:

     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.

   • 2007, Jack R. Greene, “Courtroom testimony and ‘testilying’”, in The Encyclopedia of Police Science‎^[1], volume 1, page 274:

     Higher rank officers in New York advocated that those officers who testilied should not be prosecuted because testilying was a police tradition.