Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being mendacious; a propensity to lie; the practice of lying; mendacity.
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- noun
Mendacity .
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Examples
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I have voted for Labour most of my life but I am absolutely sick of the politics of fear, the selling of our liberty down the river, the sending kids to an illegal war under-equipped and underpaid, and the sheer monomaniacal arrogance and mendaciousness of the New Labour project. and then Rachel posts again:
Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008
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I have voted for Labour most of my life but I am absolutely sick of the politics of fear, the selling of our liberty down the river, the sending kids to an illegal war under-equipped and underpaid, and the sheer monomaniacal arrogance and mendaciousness of the New Labour project. and then Rachel posts again:
Luke Akehurst - "firmly on the moderate wing of the (Labour) party" Not a sheep 2008
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And again, I must be naive, because the mendaciousness & cynicism on display here seems downright *sociopathic*.
"A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing." Ann Althouse 2009
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And the extent and mendaciousness of it can be seen in the percentage of African "AIDS" cases which had never even had a PCR test to detect the virus - 75% 90%?
AIDS in Africa: Too Bad to Be True, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Bruce McQuain points out this statement by Obama that is just staggering in its mendaciousness emphasis added
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But the relatively good prospect of passage for a hate-crimes bill that covers "sexual orientation" -- the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 -- has sent WND into a fit of mendaciousness matched only by the lies it has told about Obama.
Terry Krepel: Right-Wing Media Lies About the Hate-Crimes Bill 2009
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Bruce McQuain points out this statement by Obama that is just staggering in its mendaciousness emphasis added
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Rather, Sarah, it is your hypocrisy and mendaciousness that mightily offend Me.
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HH used technique and mendaciousness as opposed to fact to make her points.
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A few readers seemed to take my argument seriously, whether or not they agreed with me; several, however, seemed to agree that the article (and presumably the author as well) were simply "asinine" inasmuch as it (and I) unaccountably failed -- out of stupidity or mendaciousness -- to recognize that "we are a republic, not a democracy, and should keep it that way."
Balkinization 2006
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