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liar

[ lahy-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

liar

/ ˈlaɪə /

Origin of liar¹

before 950; Middle English lier, Old English lēogere. See lie ¹, -ar ¹

The root of the word irony is in the Greek eironeia, “liar.”

Liar "I sometimes wish I could be anonymous and just walk down the street like everybody else."

This is an agency that spied on the very committee investigating it and whose current director is an admitted liar.

Their last hope for saving humanity, Eugene, turned out to be a liar with no idea how to stop the zombie virus.

What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him.

While he grieved over the loss of our little one, you conceived a vile plot to 'get even,' Oh, you—liar!

I let him go on, exulting in the discovery that he was a liar, for I knew that it pushed me a step towards recovery.

I am grateful—voyons—if anybody ever says Aristide Pujol is ungrateful, he is a liar.

But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar.

In vain you may know him to the core—know him a liar, a comedian—he manages always to get the better of you with his stories.

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