bald-faced liar

bald-faced liar

One who tells blatantly obvious or impudent untruths easily and with little or no attempt to disguise the lie. Everyone knows he is just a bald-faced liar. It's a wonder anyone believes a thing he says anymore.
See also: liar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • baldfaced
  • barefaced
  • barefaced liar
  • boldface
  • bold-faced liar
  • bald-faced lie
  • bold-faced lie
  • barefaced lie/liar
  • barefaced lie
  • I spoke out of turn
References in periodicals archive
I'm no fan of Vladamir Putin, but the way he's calling out John Kerry as a bald-faced liar doesn't look good.
Here's one example of the leftist "logic": Because Ryan has praised Rand, saying her views contributed to his values and beliefs, and because he has credited Rand with motivating him to enter politics, Ian Reifowitz, a writer for the Daily Kos, concludes that Ryan must therefore embrace Rand's philosophy.1 Reifowitz even calls Ryan a "bald-faced liar" for saying he rejects Rand's philosophy.
Editor, writer and blogger Langdon Cook talks about "Creative Nonfiction: Telling the Truth Like a Bald-Faced Liar" at 7 p.m.
You Won't Get Fooled Again: More Then 101 Brilliant Ways to Bust and Bald-Faced Liar (Even if the Liar is Lying Beside You) features a side-splitting humorous twist to its very practical list of strategies to discern how to tell when someone is lying to you.
Called by the Ku Klux Klan "the most hated man in Alabama" and an "integrating, carpet-bagging, scalawagging, race-mixing, bald-faced liar" by Governor George Wallace,(1) the Judge Johnson I knew was no radical, but a man of deep principle.
Bald-faced liars operate under the theory that if you repeat something enough times, people will start to believe it.