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mythomaniac

ADJECTIVE

false

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deceitful deceptive malicious misleading

WEAK

apostate base beguiling canting corrupt crooked deceiving deluding delusive devious dishonorable disloyal double-dealing duplicitous faithless falsehearted forsworn foul lying malevolent mean perfidious perjured rascally recreant renegade scoundrelly traitorous treacherous treasonable two-faced underhanded unfaithful unscrupulous untrustworthy venal villainous wicked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

frank honest open truthful upright

WEAK

accurate actual correct factual genuine just known precise real reliable right straight substantiated true valid

Example Sentences

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Describing himself as a mythomaniac, he admitted he had no training with the FBI, never interviewed Charles Manson and not played professional soccer for the Parisian team Red Star.

From Fox News • May 13, 2020

‘Longyarn’ Jason Craig’s shaggy celebration of storytelling as a life force, featuring a mountainous mythomaniac of a mother played by Jessica Jelliffe, suggests a marriage of Samuel Beckett and Baron Munchausen.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016

Of course, they admit, he has also been fingered as a mythomaniac trickster.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2011

At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan was a mythomaniac with a backhand regard for truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

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