Meaning of swearing contest | Babel Free

Definitions

A trial whose outcome comes down to which of two parties swearing to the truth of opposing accounts is to be believed.

informal

Examples

“Dershowitz pithily illustrates the dilemma of the courts in deciding the swearing contest in his “rules” of the criminal justice system: […]”

“Such one-on-one “swearing contests” are routinely decided in favor of law enforcement officers, but in this case the district court sided with the accused bank robber.”

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