What is "liar"

Liar \Li"ar\ (l[imac]"[~e]r), n. [OE. liere. See Lie to falsify.] A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

early 13c., from Old English leogere "liar, false witness," agent noun from Anglian legan, West Saxon leogan "be untruthful, lie" (see lie (v.1)). "The form in -ar is probably in imitation of the refashioned forms such as scholar for scoler and pillar for piler." [Barnhart]

n. One who tells lies.

n. a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: prevaricator] [ant: square shooter]

A liar is a person who tells a lie.

It can also refer to:

"Liar" is the title of a number-one R&B single by group Profyle. The hit song spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number fourteen on the US Pop chart.

Liar is the second studio album by South Korean entertainer Harisu, released on October 28, 2002. Musically similar to her first album, Temptation, Harisu describes Liar as being "very Euro/ techno/ house... a high-energy dance record with a very upbeat rhythm." A music video was filmed for the album's title track.

Liar peaked at #23 on the MIAK K-pop albums chart, selling 15,760 copies in its first month of release.

"Liar" is an English language song by the Norwegian urban duo Madcon from their third studio album An InCONvenient Truth. The song was written by Kim Ofstad, Jonny Sjo, Hitesh Ceon, Yosef Woldemariam and Tshawe Shoore Baqwa and was released in 2008 in Norway and on 20 February 2009 in the UK. The song reached #2 in Norway and #65 in Germany.

Liar is a 2009 young adult thriller novel by Justine Larbalestier. It is written in first person from the point of view of a character named Micah Wilkins, who is a deliberate unreliable narrator (made clear as such on the first page of the book).

Liar were a UK band formed in 1975. They released two albums, Straight from the Hip and Set the World on Fire and two singles, and toured internationally. A third album was recorded in Los Angeles but never released.

Liar is the third album by Vancouver indie band Fake Shark – Real Zombie!. It was released on February 14, 2013. The album is a bit of direction change for the band, and the first with label, Light Organ Records. Guests include Care Failure of the band Die Mannequin, Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence, Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, and Henry Rollins.

"Liar" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by the lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1970, and originally titled "Lover". The song featured on the band's 1973 debut album Queen. A heavily truncated version of "Liar" was released as a single —backed with "Doing All Right" — in the United States by Elektra Records in February 1974.

In the band's early years, "Liar" was a concert staple, performed as a conclusion to their main set and often lasting for up to ten minutes. However, over time the song eventually fell off the setlist, with the exception of The Works Tour (though the song was cut down to three minutes or less). "Liar" was referenced in the setlist of the Magic Tour, as Brian May played a partial guitar riff from the song immediately before "Tear it Up".

During live performances, it was a notable case where John Deacon mimed singing backing vocals - namely, he stood behind Mercury and sang into his microphone, for the "all day long" section of the song. This is replicated in the song's promotional video, shot in 1973. Seemingly, Deacon only mouthed the words in live performances, as his voice cannot be heard here on any recording, official or bootlegged. The choice to only mime singing along was presumably a result of Deacon's admitted weaker singing ability. The song also contains a bass solo performed by Deacon, the most substantial solo he ever performed live. As confirmed by the transcription on EMI Music Publishing's Off The Record sheet music for the song, this is one of three Queen tracks, the others being " Now I'm Here" and " Under Pressure" (their collaboration originally with David Bowie), to feature a Hammond organ.

This song briefly brought up the issue of songwriting credits within the band. Brian May queried which band members would be credited for developing the music for each song, to which Freddie Mercury concluded the discussion, stating that the lyricist, or otherwise the individual who originates the song, should be credited as its writer, a practice that continued until " The Miracle".

Liar is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band The Jesus Lizard, which was released in 1992 by Touch and Go Records. The album is considered to be among the band's best work: according to Mark Demling of Allmusic, "Liar isn't quite the wildest or weirdest album the Jesus Lizard ever made, but it may well be the strongest, and perhaps the best." The artwork is "Allegory of Death" by painter Malcolm Bucknall, who also provided art for the album Down and the " Puss/Oh, the Guilt" split single with Nirvana. It was ranked as the 58th best album of the 1990s by the online music magazine Pitchfork Media.

"Liar" is a song by Rollins Band and the lead single from their fourth full-length album, Weight, released in 1994. It was the album's only charting single and one of the group's best known songs.

Both a short edit (4:19) and a longer "video edit" (4:49) were distributed as CD singles in various territories, often with one or more unreleased tracks from the Weight sessions added; these and other outtakes were included in the 2004 release Weighting.

The video edit of "Liar" was featured in the song's music video and features a different vocal track and slightly different lyrics in the opening section. Directed by Anton Corbijn, the video itself features alternating depictions of vocalist Henry Rollins: during the song's verses, he is dressed in a plain black T-shirt as he speaks in a calm, soothing tone about trust and friendship; during the chorus segments he is shirtless and painted red, wildly jumping and flailing about as he screams derisively at his audience. He is also seen dressed in a Superman parody costume, a police officer uniform and a nun's habit.

Upon release, the "Liar" video gained heavy airplay on MTV and appeared on Beavis and Butt-head. In the episode, Beavis becomes excited about the chorus, repeating the word "Liar!" in the same way he typically says "Fire! Fire! Fire!". Butt-head comes to the conclusion that "lying rules."

"Liar" was named the 64th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Rollins Band performed the song at the 37th Grammy Awards Ceremony.

Despite the song's popularity, Rollins himself would later reveal on BBC's HARDtalk that "Liar" was originally performed at shows as a joke with no refined chord structure and was actually recorded with the intention of being a b-side and to not even be featured on Weight. However, when the record label heard it they immediately recognized its potential to become a hit and proposed it be the lead single.

"Liar" is a song written by Russ Ballard and performed by Three Dog Night. It reached #7 on the Billboard chart and #14 in Canada in 1971. It was featured on their 1970 album, Naturally.

The song was produced by Richard Podolor.

"Liar" is the fourth single by Eskimo Joe, taken from their debut album Girl. It was released in March 2002 as a double A side, with the re-released single, " Who Sold Her Out", which peaked in the ARIA Singles Chart top 100 and No 17 on the related ARIA Alternative Singles chart. The video for the "Liar", directed by Nash Edgerton, was nominated for 'Best Video' at the 2002 ARIA awards,ARIA Music Awards for Eskimo Joe:

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won the 'Best Music Video' at SoundKilda and 'Best Music Video' at the 2003 Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards.