liar

[lahy-er]

noun

1. a person who tells lies. lie.

   Synonyms: prevaricator, perjurer, falsifier

liar

/ ˈlaɪə /

noun

1. a person who has lied or lies repeatedly

Word History and Origins

Origin of liar¹

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

Example Sentences

I’ve always been a bad liar, and I’m definitely lying right now.

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He knew a liar when she was sitting in front of him, wrapped in a filthy piece of stage curtain and balancing a broken costume crown on her head.

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“As I suspected! Miss Lumley, you are a liar, and here is proof.”

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“Call him a liar, if you must speak to the man at all.”

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“Either that or they are all liars,” she said, “but I assume they really just don’t know.”

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