liars

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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

“People, unfortunately, have turned into thieves, liars and cheaters, and I don’t know what’s happened to the world, but we’ve lost our way to be kind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

In the same TMZ special, Alan Abrahamson, a former Los Angeles Times reporter who covered the Menendez trials in the 1990s, said the brothers are "two of the most skilled and accomplished liars".

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

Lie-detection tests are notoriously inaccurate, and calculations similar to the above demonstrate why truthful people who flunk polygraph tests usually outnumber liars.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos