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But the degree of the congressman’s mendaciousness grew increasingly impressive as reporters paged through the Santos Files.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

When considering the virtue of truthfulness and its opposite, mendaciousness, Aristotle identified two common kinds of lying characters: the boaster and the flatterer.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2018

For many the wider assumption here was that this simply exposed what are perceived to be Terry's worst traits: yahooing self-promotion, mendaciousness, leaving the washing up and all the rest of it.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2013

"I won't hurt you, my little man," he added, with the affable mendaciousness of his craft.

From A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Wheelhouse, M. V.

Jack paid tribute to Dade's mendaciousness by looking at him doubtfully, not quite sure whether to believe him; and Dade chuckled again, well pleased with himself.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto