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mendacity
/ mɛnˈdeɪʃəs; mɛnˈdæsɪtɪ /
noun
- the tendency to be untruthful
- a falsehood
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Derived Forms
- menˈdaciousness, noun
- mendacious, adjective
- menˈdaciously, adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mendacity1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mendacity1
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Example Sentences
Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”
Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.
Rush soon moved out of apology mode in any event, casting himself as a victim of media mendacity.
The destruction of a for-profit enterprise is always noble; its defense always carries the whiff of mendacity.
His new book, The Mendacity of Hope, argues that Obama has betrayed liberalism and the Constitution.
A surprising person Henri, with his worn uniform and his capacity for kindly mendacity.
"Of course, I didn't really think she was my aunt," he said, with the easy mendacity of childhood.
With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death.
Nothing is more revolting, but nothing is more characteristic of the Queen, than her shameless mendacity.
"Religious mania; hysterical mendacity," a doctor diagnosed it, with a pompous frown.
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