2006-12-15 07:03:45 · 19 answers · asked by Autumns_Coma 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Personally, I prefer "prevaricators" for liars and "aggrandizers" for exaggerators. There are a few adjectives that will describe the person, as in "pompous git", replacing git with the epithet of your choice. And one can always accuse a person of being "economical with the actualite." With an accent mark over the final e. You could probably write a best-selling book about the subject!
2006-12-15 07:20:54 · answer #1 · answered by Delora Gloria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth Benders or Compulsive Liars
2006-12-15 07:06:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jo_Diva 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm rather fond of the word rapscallion
In fact I will make it my mission to fit it into my working day next week.....I'm an HR Manager so if I can fit it in to a disciplinary hearing I think it would be quite an acheivement!
2006-12-15 07:08:20 · answer #3 · answered by delphi13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Face
2016-05-22 21:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Webster's thesaurus:
Entry Word: liar
Function: noun
Text: a person who tells lies
Synonyms fabricator, fibber, prevaricator, storyteller
Related Words defamer, libeler (or libeller), slanderer; perjurer; distorter, falsifier; equivocator, palterer; gossip, gossiper, talebearer; charlatan, cheat, cheater, confidence man, counterfeiter, cozener, deceiver, defrauder, dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, fraud, hustler, mountebank, pretender
2006-12-15 07:07:37 · answer #5 · answered by Ranto 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Obstropilaterist.
2006-12-15 07:12:55 · answer #6 · answered by pageys 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Texas they are called Bull Sh****ters! But Senators and Congressmen wil work just as well.
2006-12-15 07:15:01 · answer #7 · answered by JUAN FRAN$$$ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Prevaricators, posers, embellishers
2006-12-15 07:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to say "colouring the truth" it seems to cover a multiude of things.
2006-12-15 07:14:41 · answer #9 · answered by itgirl23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but there's a medical term called dillusions of grandeur.
Politician works well.
2006-12-15 07:06:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋