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1.
telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.
false or untrue: a mendacious report.
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Mendacious
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Example Sentences
- Rumor is an evanescent and mendacious tatterdemalion.
- This is disingenuous or possibly mendacious of you.
- Yes, much of their output is tendentious, unbalanced or downright mendacious.
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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,
EXPANDlie, deceive."
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