Mendacious

Word MENDACIOUS
Character 10
Hyphenation men da cious
Pronunciations /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Mendacious"

What do we mean by mendacious?

Lying; untruthful. adjective

False; untrue: synonym: dishonest. adjective

Given to lying; speaking falsely; falsifying.

Having the character of a lie; false; untrue: as, a mendacious report; mendacious legends.

Given to deception or falsehood; lying. adjective

False; counterfeit; containing falsehood. adjective

Lying, untruthful or dishonest adjective

False or untrue adjective

Intentionally untrue adjective

Given to lying adjective

(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.

(of a statement, etc) False or untrue.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mendacious

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The word "mendacious" in example sentences

The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. ❋ Unknown (1920)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps the term 'mendacious' could be added to Romanus's list. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Sfmike (2007)

And here he exposes himself as just the kind of mendacious, chicaning, empty bag of wind he has always appeared to be. ❋ Unknown (2007)

During six months spent by the "mendacious" Pinto on the island, the imitative people made no fewer than six hundred match-locks or arquebuses. ❋ William Elliot Griffis (1885)

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. ❋ Pons Asinorum (2008)

And yet I could not forbear, once or twice, from wondering if he saw through me down to the bottom of my mendacious heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We might have been able to overcome even the most mendacious and petty instincts of the wealthy and our fellow citizens had it not been for the ironically named "Citizens United" decision of the Supreme Court. ❋ John DeCock (2010)

It's hard to imagine the movie, though, without quadruple Tonies, each slightly different face representing a facet of the complex, mendacious, charming trickster original we first meet dangling under a bridge. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

You end up with the mendacious garbled into incoherence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brooks is a mendacious, lying, pimp-shit of the “have-more” class, which exemplifies the very attitude of entitlement it exploits for profit by attributing it to the “have-nots” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lately I have found that the outrageousness of many of the angry Republican and other critics of President Barack Obama and his administration has made it simply impossible to endure such mendacious, indeed hate-driven sound bites as find their way into the television news. ❋ Unknown (2009)

More mendacious than any previous administration is certainly a ‘different’ kind of politics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many French papers have contrived to portray Strauss-Kahn as the victim of a mendacious, money-grabbing woman and a foreign legal system. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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