{"id":45031,"date":"2026-06-26T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45031"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:59:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-1127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/26\/word-of-the-day-1127\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suborn<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. verb (transitive)
    \nto bribe, incite, or instigate (a person) to commit a wrongful act<\/li>\n
  2. criminal law<\/em>
    \nto induce (a witness) to commit perjury [Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says \u2018deep state\u2019 went after Nixon<\/em><\/a>,” Dan Diamond, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou can hear him suborn perjury on the tapes. He\u2019s telling an intermediary, what to tell someone who\u2019s about to be interviewed by the FBI, what to say and what not to say,\u201d said Naftali, who oversaw the Nixon library\u2019s Watergate exhibit. \u201cYou can hear Nixon being told that money had been found to hire teamsters to go and break the bones of demonstrators. That\u2019s all illegal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Suborn perjury<\/em> is itself a phrase I ran across in legal contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Suborn: verb (transitive) to bribe, incite, or instigate (a person) to commit a wrongful act criminal law to induce (a witness) to commit perjury [Collins Dictionary] Noted in “Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says \u2018deep state\u2019 went after Nixon,” Dan Diamond, WaPo: \u201cYou can hear him suborn perjury on the tapes. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45033,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions\/45033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}