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That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2025

Wedgwood wrote about the moral and ethical deficiencies and mendacities of the figures involved in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

Reading from a carefully worded script, McMaster strung together a series of mendacities and half-truths that appalled his friends and admirers.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, it is Papa's second self; looks into the bottom of all things quite as Papa would have done, and is fatal to mendacities, practical or vocal, wherever he meets them.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas