liar Definition
liar (lī ər)
noun
a person who tells lies
Etymology: ME lier < OE leogere < base of leogan (akin to OHG liugari): see lie
liar Synonyms
liar
n.
liar Usage Examples
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.

