Synonyms of fabulists

fabulists

noun

plural of fabulist

as in liars

a person who tells lies

a once highly admired journalist whose reputation is now that of a disgraced fabulist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• liars
• storytellers
• prevaricators
• fabricators
• fibbers
• exaggerators
• defamers
• calumniators
• falsifiers
• perjurers
• distorters
• slanderers
• libelers
• mountebanks
• charlatans
• deceivers
• dissemblers
• knaves
• pretenders
• gossipers
• cheats
• gossips
• counterfeiters
• frauds
• defrauders
• cheaters
• hustlers
• libelists
• mythomaniacs
• equivocators
• cozeners
• operators
• talebearers
• double-dealers
• palterers
• dissimulators

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• square shooters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fabulists

The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026

More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived. — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026

Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience. — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025