All maligner synonyms

noun maligner

• liar — MIT Scheme
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• perjurer — to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
• storyteller — a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
• doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
• complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
• quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
• caviler — a person who cavils
• censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
• carper — to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
• zapper — to kill or shoot.
• muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
• defame — If someone defames another person or thing, they say bad and untrue things about them.
• disparager — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
• scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
• slanderer — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• worrier — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• nagger — nag1 (def 5).
• vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
• trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
• fibber — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
• prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
• fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
• promoter — a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
• fabricator — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
• falsifier — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
• dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
• faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
• niggler — to criticize, especially constantly or repeatedly, in a peevish or petty way; carp: to niggle about the fine points of interpretation; preferring to niggle rather than take steps to correct a situation.
• backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
• detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
• attacker — You can refer to a person who attacks someone as their attacker.
• defamer — One who defames.
• disapprover — One who disapproves.
• disputer — One who disputes.
• dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
• equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
• fabler — A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
• aristarch — a severe critic.
• critic — A critic is a person who writes about and expresses opinions about things such as books, films, music, or art.
• be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.