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

"I am not," he answered shortly and mendaciously as well.

From A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude by Rahn, A. D.