embustero

adj.

deceitful, liar.

m.

liar, charlatan, cheat, deceiver.

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embustero

► adjetivo

1 lying, deceitful

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 liar

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embustero, -a

1. ADJ

1) (=mentiroso) lying

2)

persona embustera — Cono Sur person who cannot spell properly

3) CAm (=altanero) haughty

2.

SM / F (=mentiroso) liar

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I

-ra adjetivo

qué niño más embustero! — what a little fibber (colloq)

II

-ra masculino, femenino fibber (colloq), liar

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I

-ra adjetivo

qué niño más embustero! — what a little fibber (colloq)

II

-ra masculino, femenino fibber (colloq), liar

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embustero¹

¹ = trickster, liar, fabulist, fabricator, fibber.

Ex: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.

Ex: That means human beings are natural-born liars.

Ex: It is important to remember that the story of the American West has been told as much by fabulists and fabricators as by historians.

Ex: It is important to remember that the story of the American West has been told as much by fabulists and fabricators as by historians.

Ex: The article 'Frequent fibbers can blame their brain' relates the deficit in grey matter volume to the impulsiveness of fibbers.

embustero²

² = deceitful, mendacious, lying.

Ex: Again, on the matter of the sources already consulted by the enquirer, the implication is not that he is unreliable or deceitful, but that in looking up the Encyclopedia Americana he may not be aware of the existence of the index.

Ex: I love movies like that -- where slowly, gradually, bit by bit, all the characters realize that the villain was really disastrously mendacious and criminal.

Ex: The board clearly didn't care if its commissioner was a lowdown, lying, corrupt and untrustworthy creep, likely because that is the nature of the entire organization.

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embustero¹ -ra

adjective

¡qué niño más embustero! what a little fibber (colloq)

embustero² -ra

masculine, feminine

fibber (colloq), liar

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embustero

◊ -ra adjetivo: ¡qué niño más embustero! what a little fibber (colloq)

■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
fibber (colloq), liar
embustero,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino cheat, liar

'embustero' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
embustera
English:
liar
- deceitful

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embustero, -a

♦ adj

[mentiroso] lying;

¡mira que eres embustero! you lying hound!

♦ nm,f

liar, fibber

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embustero

I adj deceitful

II m, embustera f liar

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embustero, -ra adj

: lying, deceitful

embustero, -ra n

: liar, cheat

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embustero n liar