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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

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

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

But unlike “All the President’s Men,” there is sympathy this time for the liars.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

But other people before you were thieves maybe, or liars, so they’ve become hard.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri