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liars

NOUN

person who tells falsehood

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cheat con artist perjurer phony storyteller

STRONG

deceiver dissimulator equivocator fabricator fabulist falsifier fibber maligner misleader prevaricator promoter trickster

WEAK

deluder fabler false witness

Example Sentences

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I do think she’s calling the supermajority liars.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Villarreal: We know Elsbeth as this person with a keen ability to read people, who can sniff out liars, murderers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Navy attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling boat, and almost certain liars for their accounts of the incident.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

I’m not bragging when I say that I’m one of the best liars in the world but I got to tell you, Todd was pretty doggone good.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis