stranger to the truth

stranger to the truth
   a habitual liar
   Not more than circumlocution perhaps, but people still don't like being called liars outright:
    He was an absolute stranger to the truth. But a storyteller such as might have beguiled Odysseus. (Turow, 1993)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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