Word: liar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some few days later Capt. Sorenson, appearing in the Department of Commerce investigation, said under oath that Reporter Duffy's article was false, that Reporter Duffy himself was "a dirty, rat-faced liar...
Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
...liar!" cried a voice...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...
...losely synonymous, a proper swear is chiefly descriptive, and need not involve that blasphemous appeal to a Higher Power which is the distinguishing characteristic of an oath. "Zeus damn you, Sir!" is a blasphemous you appeal to Zeus, and a proper oath: while "Sir, you are a Zeus damned liar!" is an affirmation, and a proper swear...