liar
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In an interview with The Times earlier this month, Arday admitted making academic "mistakes" but said he was being wrongly "portrayed to be a liar and a fantasist and an academic fraud".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
In an interview with the newspaper, Arday admitted to "mistakes" in his academic work, but said he was being wrongly "portrayed to be a liar and a fantasist and an academic fraud".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
His problem is that he’s a liar and a jerk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
On Saturday, Arday told the Times in an interview that he was accountable for those mistakes, but that "what I am not is a liar".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But her knees knocked together, as if even her own body was calling her a liar.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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I do think she’s calling the supermajority liars.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 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
Good liars also tend to be intelligent, Wiseman says, citing salespeople, politicians and - ahem - performers among those who will be "pretty high self-monitors".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
One man lamented, “We punish our children until they become cowards and liars, and then we deplore their heartless ingratitude when we in turn become weak and helpless.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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