mendacious
Use Mendacious in a sentence
ʃəs adjective
1.
telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.
false or untrue: a mendacious report.
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mendacity (mɛnˈdæsɪtɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the tendency to be untruthful |
| 2. | a falsehood |
| [C17: from Late Latin mendācitās, from Latin mendāx untruthful] | |
| mendacious | |
| —adj | |
| men'daciously | |
| —adv | |
| men'daciousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
mendacious
1610s, from M.Fr. mendacieux, from L. mendacium "a lie," from mendax (gen. mendacis) "lying, deceitful," related to menda "fault, defect, carelessness in writing" (cf. amend, mendicant), from PIE base *mend- "physical defect, fault." The sense evolution of mendax influenced by mentiri "to speak falsely,
lie, deceive."
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Example sentences
So it was, and a particularly corrupt and mendacious kind of theater at that.
The quotes from it, though accurately transcribed, are made to function as lies by being placed in an utterly mendacious context.
You are being mendacious and misrepresentative.
Rumor is an evanescent and mendacious tatterdemalion.
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