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Friday September 28, 2007

mendacious \men-DAY-shuhs\, adjective:
1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; untruthful; as, a mendacious person.
2. False; untrue; as, a mendacious statement.

Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, two very different men, each from a different party, were seen as mendacious and deceitful, driven to self-destructive actions by forces they could not control.
-- Robert Shogan, The Double-Edged Sword

His writings, speeches, and decisions supply crucial evidence but also contain mendacious elements, gaps, and camouflage.
-- Richard Breitman, Official Secrets

Mendacious is from Latin mendax, mendac-, "lying."

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