[ US /mɛnˈdæsɪti/ ]
[ UK /mɛndˈæsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the tendency to be untruthful
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How To Use mendacity In A Sentence

  • We demand that the media present the facts in an even-handed manner, investigate indications of corruption and mendacity, and spare us the trivia.
  • As we know, this didn't stop the Usual Suspects from running with it, whether out of credulousness or mendacity. Archive 2009-01-01
  • The perfidy and mendacity that follow mesmerize as much as they ring true. The Race by Richard North Patterson: Book summary
  • His history of mendacity is so intense and so long lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.
  • His speculations in this regard, while intriguing, are teased from the silent ether and rely heavily on the fact of her general mendacity.
  • He would need to show a willful mendacity, an intention to deceive by deliberate falsification.
  • Deceit, avarice and mendacity seem to be the main qualities displayed by successive governments and that leads to unsafe times for us little folks.
  • However, his aversion to marriage, his offbeat attitude to parenthood and his serial mendacity may be rooted rather closer to home in his own life.
  • As the city gasps for fiscal air, it's only fair to be clear that the city's budget difficulties are a result of provincial mendacity and not local mismanagement.
  • Of holding Obama in dubious regard, given his facile demonizing tactics and his Alinskyite praxis and wholesale mendacity in general: The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals
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