Fact-checking worked because, in theory, politicians could be shamed by being called out as liar s. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says.
Liar "I sometimes wish I could be anonymous and just walk down the street like everybody else. This is an agency that spied on the very committee investigating it and whose current director is an admitted liar. Their last hope for saving humanity, Eugene, turned out to be a liar with no idea how to stop the zombie virus.
What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him. While he grieved over the loss of our little one, you conceived a vile plot to 'get even,' Oh, you— liar! I let him go on, exulting in the discovery that he was a liar , for I knew that it pushed me a step towards recovery. I am grateful—voyons—if anybody ever says Aristide Pujol is ungrateful, he is a liar.
But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar. You say old black people lie about anything they get super offended. Master Zik. I think it has to do with respect, connotation of the word, and just how it sounds in the form of an accusation.
I was on the bus earlier and this white toddler was calling his sibling or a friend a "dirty cheater" over and over loud as! Specifically the "dirty" part. It's all about tone and phrases given the situation. Please do yourself a favor and shut the! No one likes liars. You're the reason petty arguments and division exists. Please stop posting. Mods should just sticky one black thread so all of y'all questions, concerns, and hate can be answered.
I told my mama 3 weeks ago "well you lied.. You learn something new everyday. I've never heard of this. Never noticed the opinion of the word was race-specific. After all, it's hard for him to gain from his lies when people stop believing them.
Will other people be offended? It's hard to say, but it helps a lot if others believe you and feel the accusation's appropriate. Just be aware that "liar" isn't a trivial accusation.
I was called a liar recently and it wounded me. The thing is, the person who called me this does the same behaviors that I am being called a liar about.
If you promise something and do not deliver, I would not call that lying. Some times factors are in play that are out of your control. You could in true faith planned to pay the person back when you said.
But you just could not at that time. But taking that large step and calling that person a liar and themselves a fool for believing you makes me feel like it am slandered and he is overdramatizing. Either way it creates a wedge between two otherwise happy people.
So do not call a person a liar unless you are prepared to defend your statement or do not want to have a good relationship with that person anymore. I was called a bitch once in a fight, but it did not hurt as much as being called a liar.
Calling someone a liar is the superlative of provocation, because it frames everything that they say as deliberately false and thus worthless. The word liar is not in itself offensive. If someone is on tv and you say "I know that guy, he's a liar" to the mother with 2 young kids, she's not going to ask you to mind your language or drag the kids away from you as she might if you used an offensive word. Being called a liar is offensive, whether true or not -- possibly more so if it is true than if it isn't, but possibly not.
You call someone a liar when you want to be not just blunt, but rude and offensive. OTOH, "proven liar" sounds like something you'd say about a politician and would in my view mainly reflect badly upon the speaker.
It makes you sound infantile as if the best you can do is dredge up some mistake or misleading statement they made, call it a lie and then try to tar them as a liar. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. Is the noun "liar" considered offensive? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 9 months ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 20k times. Improve this question. Thursagen Josephine Howe Josephine Howe. If you call me a liar, you'd better smile when you say that, pardner. Them's fightin' words where I come from.
I am a foreiner to US, and I didn't know the natives' feeling toward the word 'liar'.
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