Sentence examples for harmless liar from inspiring English sources
After that, about the nicest thing that any American historian was willing to say about John Smith was an aside offered in 1930 by Samuel Eliot Morison, who called him "a liar, if you will; but a thoroughly cheerful and generally harmless liar".
Denis's lies were never harmless, because liars do something powerful: they alter our sense of security.
What concerns me more are hoaxes and lies, some of which are harmless, and some of which stand to benefit the liar if people believe them.
Gardner had previously written about the start of Scientology in his classic 1952 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, at which time he regarded Hubbard as a harmless crank, but Miller's book persuaded Gardner that Hubbard was "a pathological liar who steadily deteriorated from a charming rogue into a paranoid egomaniac".
Often the financial lies we're telling, however minor or harmless or even well-intentioned, may be unnecessary, says Robert Feldman, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of "The Liar In Your Life".
