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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For Concordia survivor Georgia Ananias, the COVID-19 infections are just the latest evidence that passenger safety still isn’t a top priority for the industry.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2022
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 • May 29, 2018
Ananias Léki Dago, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, takes us from the black shebeens, or social clubs, of Johannesburg to the sheet-metal neighborhoods of Nairobi and the dusty boulevards of Bamako.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016
“He” is Ananias Jolley, a 17-year-old who dreamed of becoming an architect and whom Khalil describes as the Kevin Hart of their school, always making people laugh.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2016
Opposite the mosaic of Ananias and Sapphira is the last tomb erected in St. Peter's, that of Pius VIII.,
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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