testilie

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verb

To commit perjury (as a police officer).

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Meanings

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

present singular third person testilies · participle present testilying · participle past testilied · past testilied

  1. USeuphemisticinformallawTo commit perjury (as a police officer).

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

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

Origin

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

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APA

testilie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/testilie

MLA

“testilie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/testilie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “testilie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/testilie.

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