What's the difference between lair and liar?

Lair


Definition:

  • (n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
  • (n.) A burying place.
  • (n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
  • (2) It has been found that during the ULAIR elaboration the hippocampal neurons react by an increase of dry mass, during the LAIR elaboration-by its decrease.
  • (3) Journalism must work to earn back that trust; but in the meantime, Thiel’s revenge, executed with chilling precision like a comic-book villain in an ominous lair, should distress anyone with any interest in free speech.
  • (4) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
  • (5) At Open House Weekend each September (and on occasional tours), you can visit the parlour and see the society’s array of drug jars; the whole complex has something of the master wizard’s lair about it.
  • (6) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
  • (7) On a very small budget he creates the distinctive set for the lair of the Bond villain on Crab Key that will define his character for years to come – high-tech in its futuristic, scientific working area; Renaissance-princely in its domestic aspect.
  • (8) The shooting script for today's scenes is titled "Alice's Lair", and that word is a considered choice.
  • (9) But was it then any defence that he acted so seldom, that he had deserted the stage he had himself brought to life, or that he had come to regard movies with the hurt feelings of a Kong, hiding in his lair, unwilling to make a cheap spectacle of himself for those exploiting showmen?
  • (10) Cath Jackson reports on the last of the 1990 National health visitor week award-winning projects which successfully tracked this elusive client group to its lairs.
  • (11) Under condition of serotonine excess in the brain the changes of dry mass in hippocampal neurons during elaboration of the two reflexes are opposite to these observed during the ULAIR and LAIR elaboration with normal serotonine content.
  • (12) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
  • (13) Rather, COR is a dimly lit auditorium, with the functionality of a Bond villain’s techno-lair.
  • (14) Pete is about to retreat in to his lair: "I can't help, mate," he says.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Approaching the end-of-level boss on the Devils' Lair strike mission and things begin to look rather dark... We're into the final section of the mission now.
  • (16) To find out, Devine made the unusual decision to track the author to his lair.
  • (17) The section we’re seeing is a Strike mission named The Devils’ Lair, set in the toxic wastelands of Old Russia.
  • (18) Turkey's determination to beard Assad in his lair comes amid growing Arab criticism of Syria, reflected in the Gulf Co-operation Council 's weekend call for an end to the use of "excessive force" and the pursuit of "serious reform".
  • (19) But there the cultural connection ends: this spiny monster will house high-end accommodation for 500 students, mostly international, who will be able to peek out from their luxury lair through mean, arrow-slit windows.
  • (20) Rather like a James Bond villain addressing the world from his lair, the billionaire spoke to camera via the internet to "reveal" that he would offer $5m to sick children if President Obama produced his college records.

Liar


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
  • (3) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (4) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
  • (5) If that is not enough, a rogue former special adviser to Gove, Dominic Cummings, has taken to attacking the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as a liar over the free school meals-for-all policy.
  • (6) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
  • (7) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
  • (8) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
  • (9) cries Gary Naylor, making a liar of me and the cast-iron GUARDIAN NO-SUAREZ GUARANTEE™ in the preamble.
  • (10) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
  • (11) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
  • (12) Reacting to Johnson’s appointment as foreign secretary two weeks ago, Ayrault described him as a liar with his back against the wall .
  • (13) The independent member for Arnhem, Larissa Lee, accused Giles of being a liar and of putting a “wedge between people” and running a “toxic” leadership.
  • (14) The outburst came less than a month after the Conservative candidate came under fire for calling Livingstone a "fucking liar" in a lift after a row over their respective tax arrangements.
  • (15) But her father was able to produce her birth certificate, proving she was only 16; thereby exposing the Tehran regime as liars and child killers.
  • (16) Abbott’s adamant and explicit pre-election policy commitments of “ no cuts ” to education, pensions, health, the ABC or SBS has marked him as a liar.
  • (17) It's not nice feeling that someone thinks you're a liar, so I want her to know I'm OK.
  • (18) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
  • (19) His latest book is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.
  • (20) Livingstone also revealed what happened in the famous lift incident two weeks ago, when Johnson went nose to nose with him after an on-air exchange about their respective tax arrangements, and called the Labour mayoral candidate "a fucking liar".