liar

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McCain as a liar is a distraction as much as the content of his lies.

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  1. noun One that tells lies.

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  • The D'/fy never lie, they claim; to call a D'/fy a liar is the greatest imaginable insult: it drives them wild. —  FSFDec2003
  • To confront a man of his stature and call him a liar was a tall order. —  EQMM,August2006
  • I do you a favor and get called a liar, which is about the thanks I expected. —  153 - Trouble On Parade
  • And this liar is an old one; we know him many years. —  Sherry Chandler
  • These tactics include his repeated inveigling against the news media when they don't hew to his script or when he is called a liar, and his dramatic but stunningly ham-handed decision last week to "suspend" campaigning and race to Washington to bail out the Wall Street bailout, a ploy as transparently phony as a teenager having a hissy fit when grounded by a parent. —  The Moderate Voice
 

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  1. Prop., as in early modern English, lier; early modern English also lyer, from Middle English lizere, lyzere, leghere, leigher, etc., from Anglo-Saxon leógere (= Icelandic ljūgari) (cf. equivalent D. leugenaar = Middle Low German logenēre = Old High German lugināri, lukināri, Middle High German lügenære, German lügner = Danish lögner = Swedish leógnare, of different formation: see lain), a liar, from leógan, lie: see lie and -ar, -er.
 

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