mendacity
noun
the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
mendacities
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pluralof mendacity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
What monstrous cruelties and mendacities might underlie the surface of this gay and melodious existence!
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
