| Purveyors of pork pies backing bar succeeded |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Jul 2026 |
| Tall tale tellers |
New York Times |
13 Jul 2026 |
| Dishonest ones |
Universal |
01 Jul 2026 |
| Fib tellers |
Universal |
29 Jun 2026 |
| Rails about dishonest people (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
23 May 2026 |
| Fibbers (5) |
Mirror Quick |
23 May 2026 |
| Rails about dishonest people (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
13 Apr 2026 |
| Fibbers (5) |
Mirror Quick |
13 Apr 2026 |
| Storytellers scoff about story's introduction (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Mar 2026 |
| Storytellers |
USA Today |
07 Mar 2026 |
| "Lies and the Lying ___ Who Tell Them" (Al Franken book) |
New York Times Mini |
18 Feb 2026 |
| Perjurers |
Commuter |
29 Jan 2026 |
| Pork pie producers? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
16 Dec 2025 |
| They'll make it up to you |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2025 |
| Fibbers |
The Telegraph Plusword |
06 Nov 2025 |
| "Y'all aren't being truthful!" |
USA Today |
14 Sep 2025 |
| They make things up |
Universal |
13 Sep 2025 |
| Make-up artists? |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Untrustworthy people |
Commuter |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Whopper tellers |
Universal |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Perjurers |
Commuter |
26 Jul 2025 |
| Fibbers |
The Telegraph Plusword |
20 Jul 2025 |
| "___ Club"; game show of old |
|
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| "___ need to have good memories": Algernon Sidney (5) |
|
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| Pretty Little ___, US teen drama series from 2010 to 2017 (5) |
|
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| Dishonest folks |
USA Today |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Truth benders |
|
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| Make-up artists? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
14 Jun 2025 |
| Untrustworthy people |
USA Today |
05 Jun 2025 |
| Stretchers of the truth |
|
|
| Apt rhyme of "falsifiers" |
New York Times Mini |
25 May 2025 |
| Fib tellers |
Universal |
08 May 2025 |
| Tellers of untruths (5) |
|
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| "And now we move on to ___", from Father Ted's golden cleric acceptance speech. (5) |
|
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| Some of their familiar stories may not be believed (5) |
|
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| Fibbers |
Commuter |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Whopper tellers |
Commuter |
18 Mar 2025 |
| Yarn spinners |
Newsday |
20 Feb 2025 |
| "Pretty Little ___" |
|
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| You can't trust their stories |
New York Times Mini |
03 Jan 2025 |
| They're not true |
Newsday |
02 Jan 2025 |
| Sarah Manguso novel whose protagonist "floated face down in housewifery" (July, 2024) |
|
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| Untruthful individuals |
Universal |
24 Dec 2024 |
| Untrustworthy people |
Commuter |
09 Dec 2024 |
| People who twist the truth |
|
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| 64-Down tellers |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2024 |
| Twisted rails can be deceptive (5) |
|
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| People not telling the truth |
|
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| "Pretty Little ___" (teen drama series) |
|
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| Frustrating players in Go Fish |
New York Times |
13 Jul 2024 |
| Unreliable narrators |
New York Times |
23 Jun 2024 |
| Porky producers? |
The Telegraph Plusword |
07 Jun 2024 |
| Dishonest people (5) |
|
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| Tale tellers |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Apr 2024 |
| Faux tellers |
|
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| Tale tellers |
LA Times Mini |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Polygraph flunkers, maybe |
|
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| Deceitful people |
Newsday |
27 Mar 2024 |
| They falsify their accounts (5) |
|
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| Those like Ananias are off the rails (5) |
|
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| Those who fib |
|
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| Make-up artists |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Feb 2024 |
| Ones whose pants are on fire? |
Universal |
23 Feb 2024 |
| They're not square |
|
|
| Untruthful people |
Newsday |
16 Jan 2024 |
| Untruthful fellows |
|
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| ___ poker (bluffing game) |
New York Times |
19 Dec 2023 |
| Ones who couldn't be further from the truth? |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2023 |
| "Pretty Little ___" (teen drama series) |
|
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| Tale tellers |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Jul 2023 |
| Tale tellers |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Deceitful people |
Thomas Joseph |
22 May 2023 |
| Fibbing people |
USA Today |
05 May 2023 |
| Inventive types? |
LA Times Daily |
01 Apr 2023 |
| Make-up artists? |
New York Times |
16 Mar 2023 |
| Inventive types? |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jan 2023 |
| Deceitful people |
USA Today |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Perjurers |
LA Times Daily |
26 Dec 2022 |
| Brooklyn Bridge dealers? |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Nov 2022 |
| Deceitful people |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Aug 2022 |
| People who fib |
Universal |
26 Aug 2022 |
| "Pretty Little ___" (teen drama series) |
|
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| Story tellers |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Apr 2022 |
| ___ dice (deception game) |
Universal |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Untrustworthy folks |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Tale tellers |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Deceitful bunch |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Jan 2022 |
| Deceitful people |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Oct 2021 |
| Untrustworthy people |
Universal |
16 Oct 2021 |
| Tale tellers |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Oct 2021 |
| Duplicitous group |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Oct 2021 |
| Inventors of a sort |
|
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| Inventors of a sort |
LA Times Daily |
31 Jul 2021 |
| Tale tellers |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Jul 2021 |
| They're not true |
Newsday |
30 May 2021 |
| Tale tellers |
Thomas Joseph |
25 May 2021 |
| Deceitful bunch |
Thomas Joseph |
15 May 2021 |
| Untruthful people |
USA Today |
23 Apr 2021 |
| Fib tellers |
Premier Sunday |
28 Feb 2021 |
| ___ paradox |
|
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| Those known for their stories? |
Universal |
21 Dec 2020 |
| Yarn weavers |
LA Times Daily |
20 Nov 2020 |
| Yarn weavers |
|
|
| Ones exposed by fact-checkers |
|
|
| Fact fudgers |
Premier Sunday |
18 Oct 2020 |
| Untruthful ones |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Untruthful sorts |
Universal |
06 Aug 2020 |
| Dishonest ones |
Newsday |
04 Aug 2020 |
| Misstatement sources |
Newsday |
26 Jun 2020 |
| Tellers of tales |
New York Times |
17 Jun 2020 |
| Untrustworthy people |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Untruthful folks |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jan 2020 |
| TV series "Pretty Little ___" with Lucy Hale and Troian Bellisario that is based on Sara Shepard's novel series of the same name |
|
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| Makeup experts? |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2019 |
| Makeup experts? |
|
|
| Nigerian princes offering you money, probably |
New York Times |
02 Dec 2019 |
| Nigerian princes offering you money, probably |
|
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| Story tellers |
|
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| Story tellers |
New York Times |
13 Oct 2019 |
| Bunch of dishonest people |
|
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| Deceitful people |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Oct 2019 |
| Ones needing a good memory, it's said |
|
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| Ones needing a good memory, it's said |
New York Times |
14 Sep 2019 |
| Pants-on-fire types |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Sep 2019 |
| Spinners of 21-Acrosses |
USA Today |
10 Jul 2019 |
| Super dupers? |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jul 2019 |
| Fabulists |
Wall Street Journal |
11 May 2019 |
| Ones failing polygraphs |
|
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| Ones failing polygraphs |
New York Times |
07 May 2019 |
| Problematic witnesses |
USA Today |
30 Apr 2019 |
| "Pretty Little ___," drama series about four teenage girls |
|
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| Some are compulsive |
|
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| Some are compulsive |
LA Times Daily |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Deceitful folks |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Mar 2019 |
| Tribe in some logic puzzles |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Feb 2019 |
| People who don't tell the truth |
|
|
| Untrustworthy sorts |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Jan 2019 |
| Tribe in some logic puzzles |
|
|
| Some are compulsive |
|
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| Problematic witnesses |
|
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| Spinners of 21-Acrosses |
|
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| Untrustworthy sorts |
|
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| Deceitful folks |
|
|
| Fabulists |
|
|
| Pants-on-fire types |
|
|
| Super dupers? |
|
|
| Witnesses to avoid |
Universal |
26 Dec 2018 |
| Untrustworthy ones |
Newsday |
16 Dec 2018 |
| Cretans, as described in the Epimenides paradox |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Whopper inventors |
|
|
| Whopper inventors |
LA Times Daily |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Figures in a classic logic problem |
New York Times |
18 Aug 2018 |
| Tale tellers |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Aug 2018 |
| Dishonest ones |
|
|
| Tall tale tellers |
|
|
| Servers of whoppers |
Universal |
30 Jul 2018 |
| Truth tellers' opposite |
New York Times |
05 Jun 2018 |
| Whopper tellers |
Universal |
02 Mar 2018 |
| Whopper inventors |
|
|
| Truth tellers' opposite |
|
|
| Figures in a classic logic problem |
|
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| Servers of whoppers |
|
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| Whopper tellers |
|
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| Witnesses to avoid |
|
|
| They're beyond belief |
New York Times |
16 Dec 2017 |
| Ones spinning webs? |
New York Times |
12 Oct 2017 |
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
LA Times Daily |
27 Sep 2017 |
| Make-up artists? |
|
|
| Tellers of fish stories |
USA Today |
16 Jul 2017 |
| They'll sell you a porky scratching — it's first on bar back |
|
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| Good ones have straight faces |
Universal |
11 Jun 2017 |
| Deceivers |
Universal |
31 May 2017 |
| Fibbing sorts |
Premier Sunday |
28 May 2017 |
| People who often try to hide the truth and instead misinform others |
|
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| Those who need sound memories, per Montaigne |
New York Times |
12 Feb 2017 |
| They're beyond belief |
|
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| Whopper creators |
|
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| Tellers of fish stories |
|
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| Those who need sound memories, per Montaigne |
|
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| Ones spinning webs? |
|
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| Deceivers |
|
|
| Good ones have straight faces |
|
|
| Fact fudgers |
USA Today |
26 Dec 2016 |
| Inventive types? |
LA Times Daily |
30 Nov 2016 |
| Untruthful people |
Newsday |
24 Oct 2016 |
| Fabricators of facts |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Oct 2016 |
| Humbugs |
Newsday |
24 Sep 2016 |
| Untruthful people |
|
|
| Tall tale tellers |
Newsday |
24 Jul 2016 |
| Make up artists? |
|
|
| Some storytellers |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2016 |
| One entertained by mostly fat, small, porky narrators |
|
|
| They tell untruths |
USA Today |
10 Jan 2016 |
| Some storytellers |
|
|
| They tell untruths |
|
|
| Fact fudgers |
|
|
| Inventive types? |
|
|
| Make-up artists? |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Dec 2015 |
| Those like Amy in 'Gone Girl' |
|
|
| They tell untruths |
Universal |
04 Nov 2015 |
| Polygraph flunkers |
USA Today |
14 Oct 2015 |
| Fact falsifiers |
USA Today |
11 Oct 2015 |
| Good ones have straight faces |
LA Times Daily |
13 Sep 2015 |
| They make whoppers |
Universal |
05 Jun 2015 |
| Humbugs |
LA Times Daily |
24 Apr 2015 |
| Sources of stories |
Newsday |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Yarn spinners |
Newsday |
22 Jan 2015 |
| Perjurers |
|
|
| Good ones have straight faces |
|
|
| Those like Amy in "Gone Girl" |
|
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| Tale tellers |
|
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| People that tell untruths to get to shows |
|
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| Truth stretchers |
|
|
| They tell untruths |
|
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| Fact falsifiers |
|
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| Polygraph flunkers |
|
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| They make whoppers |
|
|
| Yarn spinners |
|
|
| Sources of stories |
|
|
| Humbugs |
|
|
| People with their pants on fire? |
|
|
| Dishonest types |
|
|
| Perjurers |
|
|
| ___ poker (dollar bill game) |
|
|
| Tall tale tellers |
|
|
| Whopper tellers |
|
|
| Ian Thomas song about untrue people |
|
|
| Tale twisters |
|
|
| Storytelling specialists |
|
|
| "It is the nature of ambition to make men __": Tynan |
|
|
| Untruthful ones |
|
|
| Extreme exaggerators |
|
|
| Tellers of tales |
|
|
| Taletellers |
|
|
| Untrustworthy people |
|
|
| They aren't straight |
|
|
| Deceitful ones |
|
|
| Fact falsifiers |
|
|
| Fibbing folks |
|
|
| ___ paradox |
|
|
| Storytellers |
|
|
| Unreliable witnesses |
|
|
| ABC's "Pretty Little ___" |
|
|
| Ones with burning britches? |
|
|
| People who tell tall tales |
|
|
| Tale spinners |
|
|
| Masters of misinformation |
|
|
| Fibbers |
|
|
| Ones with fictional accounts |
|
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| Perjurers |
|
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| Perjurers |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| They're not true |
|
|
| They need good memories, so it is said |
|
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| They're not true |
|
|
| Some storytellers |
|
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| Perjurers |
|
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| Perjurers |
|
|
| Untrustworthy ones |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| ABC's "Pretty Little ___" |
|
|
| Fibbing sorts |
|
|
| Tall tale tellers |
|
|
| "Pants on fire" fellows |
|
|
| Truth twisters |
|
|
| Truth twisters |
|
|
| Tellers of tall tales |
|
|
| Tall tale tellers |
|
|
| Perjurers |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| Whopper peddlers |
|
|
| Fabricators |
|
|
| Fish-story tellers |
|
|
| Unreliable ones |
|
|
| __ poker (bar game) |
|
|
| Ones not to be trusted |
|
|
| Dishonest ones |
|
|
| Yarn spinners |
|
|
| Specialists in storytelling? |
|
|
| Munchhausen and Ananias, for two |
|
|
| Polygraph flunkers, most likely |
|
|
| Inventive sorts? |
|
|
| Polygraph flunkers, most likely |
|
|
| They're not to be trusted |
|
|
| Fabricators |
|
|
| They cook up whoppers |
|
|
| Type of poker |
|
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| Perjurers |
|
|
| They're not straight |
|
|
| They dissemble |
|
|
| Whopper weavers |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| Emulators of Ananais |
|
|
| Ananias and his ilk |
|
|
| Tall-tale tellers |
|
|
| Yarn spinners |
|
|
| ___ poker (bar game) |
|
|
| Fibbers |
|
|
| Masters of misinformation |
|
|
| ___ dice (gambling game) |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| Super dupers |
|
|
| They serve up whoppers |
|
|
| Story sources? |
|
|
| They cook up whoppers |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| Iago and his ilk |
|
|
| Extreme exaggerators |
|
|
| Two of the "To Tell the Truth" contestants |
|
|
| Storytellers |
|
|
| Dupers |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| Fabricators |
|
|
| Some To "Tell the Truth" contestants |
|
|
| False sorts |
|
|
| Makeup artists? |
|
|
| They cook up whoppers |
|
|
| Yarn makers |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| They serve up whoppers |
|
|
| Whopper peddlers |
|
|
| Story tellers |
|
|
| They disinform |
|
|
| Fishermen, frequently |
|
|
| Makeup artists? |
|
|
| Logic puzzle tribe |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| Storytellers |
|
|
| Some "To Tell the Truth" contestants |
|
|
| Make-up artists? |
|
|
| Whopper tellers |
|
|
| Truth ignorers |
|
|
| Falsehood addicts |
|
|
| Polygraph test failers |
|
|
| False witnesses |
|
|
| Story tellers |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| Storytellers |
|
|
| Noelle Saxon's "___ Poker" |
|
|
| Whopper creators |
|
|
| Tellers of tales |
|
|
| Mythomaniacs |
|
|
| Those with their pants on fire? |
|
|
| Half the natives, in many logic riddles |
|
|
| Polygraph flunkers |
|
|
| Fibbers |
|
|
| Munchhausen and Ananias |
|
|
| Fabulists |
|
|
| Tale tellers |
|
|
| Equivocators |
|
|
| Taradiddlers |
|
|
| Pseudologists |
|
|
| Fabulists |
|
|
| Kind of poker |
|
|
| Pseudomaniacs |
|
|
| Type of poker |
|
|
| Double-dealers |
|
|
| Fibbers |
|
|
| Prevaricators |
|
|
| Deceivers |
|
|
| Tall-tale tellers |
|
|
| Münchhausen et al. |
|
|
| Mendacious ones |
|
|
| Fact falsifiers |
|
|
| They need good memories |
|
|
| Ananias and his ilk |
|
|
| Ananiases |
|
|
| Dissemblers |
|
|
| Deceitful ones |
|
|
| Unreliable ones |
|
|
| Emulators of Ananias |
|
|
| Tellers of twisted tales |
|
|
| People detected by polygraphs |
|
|
| Mendacious men |
|
|
| Truth stretchers |
|
|
| Unreliable people |
|
|
| Fabulizers |
|
|
| Unveracious ones |
|
|
| Tale-tellers |
|
|
| Some fishermen |
|
|
| Canard merchants. |
|
|
| Tellers of fish stories. |
|
|
| Members of a famous Wisconsin club. |
|
|
| Double-dealers. |
|
|
| Munchausens. |
|
|
| Prevaricators. |
|
|
| Followers of Baron Munchausen. |
|
|
| Ananias and Sapphira. |
|
|
| Deceivers. |
|
|
| Unreliable ones. |
|
|
| Tall story tellers. |
|
|
| Some people in the Knights/Knaves logic puzzles |
|
|
| Baloney tradesmen? |
|
|
| Misstaters |
|
|
| Contemptible ones. |
|
|
| Ananias and others. |
|
|
| Forked-tongue tribe. |
|
|
| Hypocrites' cousins. |
|
|
| Troublemakers. |
|
|
| Mendacious men. |
|
|
| "All men are ___." |
|
|
| Veracity twisters. |
|
|
| Mythomaniacs. |
|
|
| Fabulists. |
|
|
| Double-talkers. |
|
|
| Falsifiers. |
|
|
| Some homecoming fishermen. |
|
|
| Truth fracturers. |
|
|
| Untruthers. |
|
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| Tale tellers. |
|
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| Tarradiddlers. |
|
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| Perjurers. |
|
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