Liar
['laɪə] or ['laɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
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Definition
n. one who lies.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose faith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward. For some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations through deceitful persons. For a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming conduct is likely to lose her a valued friend.
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n. A lawyer with a roving commission.
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Examples
- But he is not a liar. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They say of a person they admire, Ah, he is a charming swindler, and a most exquisite liar! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You will think me a liar. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One does not call John Carter coward and liar thus lightly, and Zat Arras should have known it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What a liar you are! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- NOW tell me I am a liar! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now tell me I'm a liar! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have been a liar, and among liars from a little child,' said the girl after another interval of silence, 'but I will take your words. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- However the cat jumps, HE'S a liar. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She stood as a liar in his eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Must I call you a liar as well as a thief? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was the first who spoke-- Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom everybody believes to be a liar? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You--you're a shuffler, sir,' gasped the furious doctor, 'a poltroon--a coward--a liar--a--a--will nothing induce you to give me your card, sir! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Worcester called him a d----d liar, and throwing his card at him, at the same time, asked him who he was, and where he came from? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If it turns out that he warn't at the Six Jolly Fellowships that night at midnight, I'm a liar. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They may pledge and make pledge,' continued he, scornfully; 'they nobbut make liars and hypocrites. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I have been a liar, and among liars from a little child,' said the girl after another interval of silence, 'but I will take your words. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The liars that these traders are! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If yer warn't both on yer such cussed liars, now! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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