| 单词 | mendacious |
| 释义 | mendacious (once / 15552 pages) adj A mendacious person is one who tells lies habitually and intentionally. Don't get stuck at the water cooler or bus stop next to someone you consider mendacious! People may tell "white lies" if they forgot your birthday or really don't like your new haircut, but if you catch someone intentionally manipulating you with a falsehood, that person is just plain mendacious. So think of the most deceptive, insincere, perfidious, duplicitous, false person you've ever met, and then add the word mendacious to that list. WORD FAMILYmendacious: mendaciously+/mendacity: mendacious, mendacities USAGE EXAMPLES“American allies and partners in the region have been disheartened by a foreign policy that has veered from feckless to mendacious.” Washington Post(Nov 19, 2016) Gove and his colleagues went on to unleash a blizzard of patently mendacious claims, contributing, along with Trump, to the murky realm of “post-truth politics.” The New Yorker(Nov 14, 2016) It will remain at best a fiction, a mendacious myth, while reality has gone beyond satire. The Guardian(Nov 12, 2016) 1adj given to lying a mendacious child Syn untruthful not expressing or given to expressing the truth 2adj intentionally untrue a mendacious statement Syn false not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality |
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