Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
- noun A lie; a falsehood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being mendacious; a disposition to lie or deceive; habitual lying.
- noun A falsehood; a lie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
- noun A falsehood; a lie.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The fact or condition of being
untruthful ;dishonesty . - noun A
lie ,deceit orfalsehood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the tendency to be untruthful
Etymologies
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Examples
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.
Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$ Dan Lybarger 2010
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Vic, your mendacity is so very earnest, it is amusing.
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In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents.
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In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents.
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However, only one example of "arrogance", over the iPhone 4 antenna (which could just as easily be described as mendacity or confusion or cock-up) is cited.
seanmeade commented on the word mendacity
great word from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
March 30, 2007
5814738 commented on the word mendacity
"He spoke in the hoarse, cadenced tones of a lifelong teller of tales--one of those devine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs strung with drops of dew." From Stephen King's The Wastelands
January 1, 2011