mendacious
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9.1
- adjective
- /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
- Formal
:
mentiroso
- Never in modern American political history has a more deliberately mendacious candidate appeared before the public.
- the most mendacious
I I didn't have very much patience for mendacious talk.
- I I didn't have very much patience for mendacious talk.
- So both sets of politicians have been, I think, mendacious.
- The CCP is, in my view, the term is mendacious fox, but they're smart.
- Kudos to Adam, but be clear, these people are mendacious fucks.
Examples
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In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every U.S. war—no matter how mendacious or horrific—is worthy of veneration.
Academic text (2010) -
Or, we need to stand up and fight back against the mendacious press.
Blog text (5) -
This report is entirely mendacious.
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If the report is mendacious, then why did the Holy Father in his last official act as Pope ask you to resign?
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The public relations mindset of our times tempts us constantly to produce mendacious content.
Academic text (1999) -
They tend to believe they are the result of this materialistic, mendacious culture.
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The assumptions of conventional economics are not only illusory, he contends, but mendacious.
Academic text (1992) -
Thus, Sandy is not "unprecedented," and labeling it as such is mendacious and self-serving climate alarmism.
Blog text (14) -
The truthful physician prescribes nothing without its merit, disdaining medical calamities, avoiding what is mendacious or absonant.
Fiction book (1991) -
The politician made a mendacious statement during the debate that misled voters.
Synonyms
128
2.5
Likely to lie or cheat to get something for yourself
66
7.8
Pretending to be honest by hiding what you know
62
5.3
Appearing true but making someone believe something that is not true
62
9.9
A person who lies or says things that are not true
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6.4
Acting in a dishonest or tricky way to get what you want
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5.0
Acting in a dishonest way to make people believe something untrue
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4.8
Not honest and likely to tell lies
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8.6
Not telling the whole truth to hide facts or avoid blame
Not honest and likely to say things that are not true
Antonyms
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mendacious comes from the Latin word mendax, which means 'lying' or 'false'. So a mendacious person is someone who does not tell the truth.