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mendacious, a.|mɛnˈdeɪʃəs|
[f. L. mendāc-em, mendax (:—*mentnax, f. root of mentīrī to lie) + -ious.]
Lying; untruthful; false.
1616R. Sheldon Miracles Antichr. 63 A mendacious Legend of Ignatius his miracles. 1654Cokaine Dianea iv. 266 Fame, that mixing Truth with Falsehood, renders the one and the other equally mendacious. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 189 [The Pagan ages] were not mendacious and distracted, but in their own poor way true and sane! 1885Truth 28 May 838/1 The..mendacious garbage that is being published in the Nouvelle Revue.
Hence menˈdaciously adv., in a mendacious or lying manner; menˈdaciousness, mendacity.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 544 The supposed mendaciously-disposed witness. 1873Brit. Q. Rev. LVII. 222 Throughout it is one long record of ambitious rapacity, mendaciousness, and crime. |