liar
/ˈlʌɪə
/noun
A person who tells lies: the man was a notorious liar [with modifier]: Shelley wasn’t a good liar...
- The liars, the traitors, the thugs, and the outlaws cannot be handed the destiny of a nation like India.
- They should not be abandoned to the tender mercies of manipulative liars and gold-diggers.
- In a world full of liars, cheaters and the deceitful, who has always given me honesty?
Synonyms
deceiver, fibber, falsifier, teller of lies, teller of untruths, perjurer, false witness, fabricator, equivocator, prevaricator, spinner of yarns;
romancer, fabulist
informal storyteller
rare fibster
Origin
Old English lēogere (see lie2, -ar4).
Rhymes
- mEq
- -mer
- meranti
- merbau
- merbromin
- merc
- mercado
- Mercalli scale
- mercantile
- mercantile doctrine
- mercantilely
- mercantile marine
- mercantile school
- mercantile store
- mercantile system
- mercantile theory
- mercantilism
- mercantilist
- mercantility
- mercaptal
- mercaptan
- mercaptide
- mercaptoacetic acid
- mercaptoethanol
- mercaptopurine