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mendacity

[ men-das-i-tee ]

noun

, plural men·dac·i·ties
  1. the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.

    Synonyms: deceit, untruth, lie, deception

  2. an instance of lying; falsehood.

    Synonyms: deceit, untruth, lie, deception



mendacity

/ mɛnˈdeɪʃəs; mɛnˈdæsɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the tendency to be untruthful
  2. a falsehood


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Derived Forms

  • menˈdaciousness, noun
  • mendacious, adjective
  • menˈdaciously, adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mendacity1

1640–50; < Late Latin mendācitās falsehood, equivalent to Latin mendāci- (stem of mendāx ) given to lying, false + -tās -ty 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mendacity1

C17: from Late Latin mendācitās, from Latin mendāx untruthful

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Example Sentences

Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”

Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.

Rush soon moved out of apology mode in any event, casting himself as a victim of media mendacity.

The destruction of a for-profit enterprise is always noble; its defense always carries the whiff of mendacity.

His new book, The Mendacity of Hope, argues that Obama has betrayed liberalism and the Constitution.

A surprising person Henri, with his worn uniform and his capacity for kindly mendacity.

"Of course, I didn't really think she was my aunt," he said, with the easy mendacity of childhood.

With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death.

Nothing is more revolting, but nothing is more characteristic of the Queen, than her shameless mendacity.

"Religious mania; hysterical mendacity," a doctor diagnosed it, with a pompous frown.

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