liar - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • bear: I always say that I'm basically a born liar, that writers make things up and invent things.
  • call: I neither lie nor was ever called a liar!
  • spot: Your belief in your ability to spot a liar is unfounded.
  • become: I have become the best liar in the world.
  • make: Your unconscious mind doesn't want to make a liar of you.
  • find: Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Converse of subject

  • lead: To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to.

Adjective modifier

  • compulsive: I was happy to leave the compulsive liar behind.
  • inveterate: Politicians are either known to be sexually promiscuous and inveterate liars, or we usually suspect them to be.
  • pathological: When someone says they are a pathological liar, should you believe them?
  • self-confessed: The New Testament takes a pride in the ignorance of the apostles, the main one of whom is a self-confessed liar.
  • habitual: Macy Gray is great because she's mad and a habitual liar, so she's always superb value.
  • blatant: I have never, ever in my life been subjected to such blatant liars as we met in that station.

Modifies a noun

  • paradox: Others have thought that problems of the " liar paradox " type show that something is wrong with our notion of truth.

Noun used with modifier

  • people: Comrade Challis was happy with simply calling people liars whenever he felt like it.

Possessives

  • paradox: He calls it a liar's paradox: if it's true, then it's false.

Preposition: in

  • world: The biggest liar in the world is ' they say ' .

Preposition: from

  • beginning: He was a murderer and liar from the beginning and so he is now.

Preposition: by

  • nature: John 8:44 tells us that the devil is not only a liar by nature, but the father of lies.

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