Ananias
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) a man who was struck dead for lying.
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a chronic liar.
noun
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New Testament a Jewish Christian of Jerusalem who was struck dead for lying (Acts 5)
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a liar
Example Sentences
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He established the “Ananias Club” — a symbolic place of exile — for reporters who displeased him, and he filed a libel suit against Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
From New York Times
"She'd even taken money from our neighbours saying she would buy things there for them," Ananias remembers.
From BBC
With him he brought his adult daughter, Eleanor White Dare, and his son-in-law, Ananias, a stonemason.
From Washington Post
Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke Island.
From National Geographic
Who can forget the punishment you handed out to Ananias and Sapphira for their deception, so aptly described in the Acts of the Apostles?
From Washington Post
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