Testilying
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Testilying is a noun meaning (US, law, informal, euphemistic) The act of a police officer giving false testimony (perjury).
Meaning
(US, law, informal, euphemistic) The act of a police officer giving false testimony (perjury).
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of testilie
Example Sentences
“Testilying,” police fabricating evidence or lying in court, is a type of police corruption.
Several officers also told us that the practice of police falsification in connection with such arrests is so common in certain precincts that it has spawned its own word: “testilying.“
Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include irritably, pettishly, petulantly, perjury, lying, subreption.
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