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[ men-dey-shuhs ] / mɛnˈdeɪ ʃəs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mendacious ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivetelling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person. false or untrue: a mendacious report. Origin of mendacious1610–20; <Latin mendāci- (see mendacity) + -ous ANTONYMS FOR mendaciousSEE ANTONYMS FOR mendacious ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM mendaciousmen·da·cious·ly, adverbmen·da·cious·ness, nounun·men·da·cious, adjectiveun·men·da·cious·ly, adverbWords nearby mendaciousMenchú, Mencius, Mencken, Mencken, H. L., mend, mendacious, mendacity, Mende, Mendel, Mendel-Bechterew reflex, Mendeleev Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mendaciousThey created well-intentioned rules—which most mendacious lobbyists have found a way to ignore legally. Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff On Congressional Travel Disclosure|Jack Abramoff|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Ross Douthat wrote in The New York Times that the media coverage of the bill was “mendacious” and “hysterical.” Are Opponents of Arizona's Anti-Gay Law Eager to Deceive?|Kirsten Powers|March 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Why call his speech before the United Nations “defamatory and venomous… full of mendacious propaganda?” Bibi's Offensive Biblical Allusions|Raphael Magarik|January 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST Erdogan's description of Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians as "genocidal" is mendacious and inflammatory. Turkish Hypocrisy|Benny Morris|March 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But too few Democrats—and almost no media commentators—have countered the mendacious right-wing storyline. How Republicans Screwed the Pooch|Paul Begala|July 31, 2011|DAILY BEAST Reuben—the mendacious Reuben—had done very well with his summer stock—very well indeed. The History of David Grieve|Mrs. Humphry Ward She felt that he was covering retreat in one direction by a mendacious advance in another. Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?|Helen H. Gardener Most of them include the mendacious narrative of the pretended descent of the Mississippi. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West|Francis Parkman Now, the mendacious man, as we agreed, is the man who can speak falsely whenever he chooses. Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume II (of 4)|George Grote Every mendacious word is a wrong, excepting only when the occasion arises of defending oneself against violence or cunning. The Basis of Morality|Arthur Schopenhauer
Words related to mendaciousdeceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, erroneous, fallacious, fraudulent, insincere, lying, perfidious, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong, perjured, false, equivocating, fibbing, paltering, prevaricating |