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as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
highly fictionalized "memoirs" in which the facts were few and the mendacities many
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as in deceit
the tendency to tell lies
you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything you say
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Recent Examples of mendacity
By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2024
And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Their mendacity has been exposed.
—Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mendacity
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Whenever the president floated some bizarre policy idea, issued a new threat, or told a brazen lie about the state of the economy, Hassett would be one of the first people on cable news justifying it.—
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Our entire relationship was built on a lie.—
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Emotional confusion, even deceit, and certainly judgmental attitudes are in the air.—
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Standing against them is notorious kingpin Bada Chaudhary (Sharad Kelkar), whose syndicate operates through layers of deceit through corridors in Saudi Arabia, Ethopia, Italy, Thailand and the UK.—
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Yet this was the tale of two halves.—
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This is, in part, a cautionary tale.—
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This two-story home provides a generous living space with its four bedrooms and three baths.—
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“Mendacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mendacity. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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