mendacious
adjective
telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful.
mendaciously
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a word derived from
mendacious.
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a word derived from
mendacity.
Example Sentences
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I mouthed back, mendaciously, and kept it moving.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
If there is very little faith, it was mendaciously eroded not by facts but by the same people now attempting to profit from it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
Those examples are the obvious extreme of Facebook’s problem: straightforward hoaxes, mendaciously claiming to be sites that they aren’t.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016
If properly executed, that sort of thing might have some resonance, although the ready answer is that, rather than mendaciously engaging in some woman-destroying scheme, she had simply trusted her husband.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
He acknowledged the receipt of the Ballymoy petition, and promised, mendaciously, to consider the matter.
From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham
