The corpus record

ψεύστης

pseustes · ὁ

liar, cheat

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Where it lives

1 John 5 · 23.52/10k
Titus 1 · 15.43/10k
1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
John 2 · 1.31/10k
Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

liar, cheat, liars

liar, cheat, Il. 24.261; ἀνὴρ ψ. Hdt. 7.209, cf. LXX Si. 15.8: c. gen. rei, ὧν . . ψεῦσται φανούμεθα wherein we shall be found to be liars, S. Ant. 1195, cf. Arist. EN 1127b16, AP 12.70 (Mel.), Phld. Herc. 1457.12.

2 lying, false

Adj., = ψευδής, lying, false, ψ. λόγος Pi. N. 5.29; ψεύστης δʼ οτος ἔπεστι λίθος, of a cenotaph, AP 7.273 (Leon.); τὸν ψεύσταν δέ με τύμβον . . θέντο· τί θαῦμα; Κρῆτες ὅπου ψεῦσται, καὶ Διός ἐστι τάφος ib. 275 (Gaet.), alluding to Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, Epimenid. 1, which is cited by Call. Jov. 8, Ep.Tit. 1.12.

In the wild

ψεύστης · pseustēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
ψεύστης · pseustēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1127b (DIORISIS sentence 1456)
ψεύστης · pseustēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8286)
ψεύστῃ · pseustēi Herodotus, Histories 7.209.5 (DIORISIS sentence 8282)
ψεῦσταί · pseustai Iliad 24.261
ψεύσταις · pseustais Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.47.1 (DIORISIS sentence 911)

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Where it came from

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