mentiroso

adj.

deceptive, liar, deceitful, dishonest.

m.

liar, storyteller.

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mentiroso

► adjetivo

1 lying

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 liar

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mentiroso, -a

1. ADJ

1) (=que miente) lying

¡es tan mentiroso! — he's such a liar!

¡mentiroso! — you liar!

2) [texto] full of errors, full of misprints

2.

SM / F (=que miente) liar

mentiroso profesional — compulsive liar

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I

-sa adjetivo

es muy mentiroso — he's an awful o terrible liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) he's a real fibber (colloq)

II

-sa masculino, femenino liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) fibber (colloq)

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I

-sa adjetivo

es muy mentiroso — he's an awful o terrible liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) he's a real fibber (colloq)

II

-sa masculino, femenino liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) fibber (colloq)

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mentiroso¹

¹ = fibber, liar, fabulist, fabricator.

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

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.

* mentiroso compulsivo = pathological liar, compulsive liar.

* mentiroso patológico = pathological liar, compulsive liar.

mentiroso²

² = mendacious, lying, deceitful.

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.

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.

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mentiroso¹ -sa

adjective

es muy mentiroso he's an awful o terrible liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) he's a real fibber (colloq)

mentiroso² -sa

masculine, feminine

liar; (dicho sin ánimo de ofender) fibber (colloq)

antes se coge al mentiroso que al cojo or más rápido cae un mentiroso que un cojo the liar is sooner caught than the cripple

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mentiroso

◊ -sa adjetivo: es muy mentiroso he's an awful o terrible liar;

(dicho sin ánimo de ofender) he's a real fibber (colloq)
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
liar;
(dicho sin ánimo de ofender) fibber (colloq)
mentiroso,-a
I adjetivo lying: es un chico muy mentiroso, he's a big liar
II sustantivo masculino y femenino liar
'mentiroso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
engañosa
- engañoso
- mentirosa
- chanta
- cuentero
- deshonesto
- hablador
- incorregible
English:
consummate
- habitual
- liar
- lying
- storyteller
- untruthful

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mentiroso, -a

♦ adj

lying;

[engañoso] deceptive

♦ nm,f

liar

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mentiroso

I adj

:

ser muy mentiroso tell a lot of lies

II m, mentirosa f liar

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mentiroso, -sa adj

embustero: lying, untruthful

mentiroso, -sa n

embustero: liar

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mentiroso n liar