No-good con man

Usage examples of liar.

She wondered if one of the qualifications to an ambassadorship was to be a consummate liar, because he excelled.

I therefore offered to buy the beaker he was making and I put down a piece of money, and the said Zorzi, called the Ballarin, a liar, a thief and an assassin, took the said piece of money, and set the said beaker within the annealing oven of the said furnace, wherein I saw many other pieces of fine workmanship, and he said that I should have the said beaker when it was annealed.

And last, that same ill luck brought this liar to Lavas Holding, this man who tempted my cousin and bewitched him.

The eldest son, who was ugly and squinted, was a kind of pleasant madman, but he was also a liar, a profligate, a boaster, and totally devoid of discretion.

Although Possano was a liar and an ungrateful, treacherous hound, yet I could not help being uneasy.

He despised my advice, and if he did so with the idea of proving me a liar, he made a mistake, for he proved me to be a prophet.

When Enema still refused to show it to her, she more or less called him a liar.

I thought this odd but concluded that he wished to verify my statements before entering into a close companionship with me, since for aught he knew I might be the largest liar in the world and a swindler to boot.

Liars again and mocking gibers in the coffee-houses and resorts of London.

She wept and said that I must avenge her on the Jew, who had excused himself by putting the fault on somebody else, but that he was a liar.

Eight years ago Count Torio told me that he had seen Medini in a London prison, and that the silly fellow confessed he had only come to London with the hope of proving me to be a liar.

A liar is a person who tells falsehoods intentionally, while if Pittoni told lies it was because he had forgotten the truth.

Medini who was a great talker and a dreadful liar thought to persuade me by shewing me a number of open letters, commending him in pompous terms to the best houses in Florence.

He was in debt to a thief inside Inwit and to a liar of a carpenter outside.

Some of the enthusiasts seeking to meet me were seeking to meet what they properly considered a Far Journeyer, but a great many wished to meet a man they mistakenly considered Un Grand Romancier, author of an imaginative and entertaining fiction, and others clearly wished only to ogle a Prodigious Liar, as they might have flocked to watch the frusta of some eminent criminal at the piazzetta pillars.