mendacity

Examples

• All

• As graduates of Goshen College, the church calls you to be agents of truth in a world of mendacity.

  Academic text (1992)

• Didn't you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity?

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

• What do you know about mendacity?

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

• There's nothing to live with but mendacity.

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

• Boy, I've lived with mendacity.

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

• Mendacity is the great sin that's destroying America.

  Desperate Hours (1990)

• The consequences of mendacity or evasion will be very unpleasant.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The worst level of mendacity I've seen hasn't been from the candidates; it's been from the press.

  Blog text (17)

• It's easy to become distracted by Mitt Romney's mendacity and obvious lies.

  Blog text (7)

• The continuation of a relentless and increasingly unprincipled war on crime was the combined product of political mendacity, chronic defects in public rationality, and mass hysteria.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

L

lying

vsmendacity

215 2.1

Telling something that is not true on purpose

is the overall quality of being untruthful rather than one single false statement

D

deceit

vsmendacity

66 4.6

Dishonest action meant to trick someone

is the general disposition to be untruthful, not only the trick or act

D

dishonesty

vsmendacity

46 3.2

Actions like lying, cheating, or stealing

focuses specifically on being untruthful rather than all forms of wrongdoing

D

duplicity

vsmendacity

12 8.1

Dishonest behavior that hides true intentions to trick someone

is the simple tendency to be untruthful rather than complex double-dealing

I

insincerity

vsmendacity

4 5.6

Not showing true feelings when you speak or act

is about habitual untruth rather than mainly hiding true feelings

D

disingenuousness

vsmendacity

3 8.8

A way of hiding the truth by pretending to be less involved

is the plain tendency to be untruthful rather than strategic pretense

D

deceitfulness

vsmendacity

2 6.5

Trying to make other people believe something that is not true

is the underlying habit of untruth rather than the specific misleading acts

F

falseness

vsmendacity

2 5.8

A way of speaking or acting that is not true

refers more to the moral tendency to be untruthful rather than simple falsity

F

fraudulence

vsmendacity

1 8.7

Dishonest behaviour that aims to get money or other unfair personal gain

is the general habit of untruthfulness, not always tied to gain

U

untruthfulness

vsmendacity

1 7.0

Saying things that are not true on purpose

is the broad tendency to be untruthful across actions rather than isolated acts

D

deceptiveness

vsmendacity

1 7.2

A quality that makes something seem true when it is false

is the broader disposition to lie rather than just creating a false impression

C

crookedness

vsmendacity

1 6.9

Dishonest behavior by a person or group

is focused on being untruthful itself rather than broader corrupt behaviour

S

snideness

vsmendacity

8.4

A false, not sincere way of speaking or behaving that hides true feelings

is the straightforward habit of lying rather than simply appearing unauthentic

O

obliquity

vsmendacity

• Formal

9.9

Behavior that hides the truth to mislead people

is the simpler quality of untruthfulness rather than complex moral distortion

U

unscrupulousness

vsmendacity

8.8

A habit of ignoring right and wrong and being dishonest to get what you want

is the narrower trait of telling untruths rather than a full lack of morals

Antonyms

H

honesty

365 1.0

Being truthful and fair in what you say and do

V

veracity

27 7.6

Being honest and not telling lies

T

truthfulness

13 2.7

Being honest and not telling lies

How Dishonest

dishonesty

46 3.2

duplicity

12 8.1

mendacity

• Formal

7 9.3

deceit

66 4.6

lying

215 2.1

untruth

16 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology