Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lying; untruthful.
- adjective False; untrue: synonym: dishonest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to lying; speaking falsely; falsifying.
- Having the character of a lie; false; untrue: as, a mendacious report; mendacious legends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to deception or falsehood; lying.
- adjective False; counterfeit; containing falsehood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person
lying ,untruthful ordishonest - adjective of a statement, etc.
false oruntrue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intentionally untrue
- adjective given to lying
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.
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The suggestion that 40 million people died because of the power of words might seem trite until one recalls the mendacious blabberings of the leaders of a war we are still fighting.
The Book Thief: Summary and book reviews of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. 2006
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Perhaps the term 'mendacious' could be added to Romanus's list.
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The first hour of the hearing was dominated by Department of Public Health head Mitchell Katz's "mendacious" set of statistics, followed by the uber-flack Sam Singer saying that everything was okay.
Archive 2007-07-01 sfmike 2007
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The first hour of the hearing was dominated by Department of Public Health head Mitchell Katz's "mendacious" set of statistics, followed by the uber-flack Sam Singer saying that everything was okay.
Rich White Liberals Murdering Black People in San Francisco sfmike 2007
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And here he exposes himself as just the kind of mendacious, chicaning, empty bag of wind he has always appeared to be.
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During six months spent by the "mendacious" Pinto on the island, the imitative people made no fewer than six hundred match-locks or arquebuses.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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By the way - though I imagine you were merely trying to denigrate others and be oh so cute - the word is "mendacious" … not "mendoucheous", which isn't even phonetically correct.
Patterico's Pontifications Pons Asinorum 2008
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Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future.
Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers 2009
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You end up with the mendacious garbled into incoherence.
Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened 2009
jrome commented on the word mendacious
Bernstein said:
"In the case George W. Bush, the American system has obviously failed -- tragically -- about which we can talk more in a minute. But imagine the difference in our worldview today, had the institutions -- particularly of government -- done their job to insure that a mendacious and dangerous president (as has since been proven many times over, beyond mere assertion) be restrained in a war that has killed thousands of American soldiers, brought turmoil to the lives of millions, and constrained the goodwill towards the United States in much of the world."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/01/23/DI2007012301482.html?sub=new
January 25, 2007
Louises commented on the word mendacious
Loved this word ever since Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof said mendacity with such deliciousness!
September 6, 2012