Synonyms of mendacity

mendacity

noun

men-ˈda-sə-tē 

1

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

highly fictionalized "memoirs" in which the facts were few and the mendacities many

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• prevarication
• falsehood
• untruth
• fairy tale
• fable
• fabrication
• falsity
• distortion
• fib
• exaggeration
• ambiguity
• whopper
• tarradiddle
• taradiddle
• fiction
• fraudulence
• slander
• deceit
• defamation
• equivocation
• libel
• perjury
• obliquity
• duplicity
• dishonesty
• half-truth
• nonsense
• misrepresentation
• pretence
• bluff
• misinformation
• myth
• fallacy
• falsification
• misstatement
• pretense
• misconception
• canard
• pose
• humbug
• deceitfulness
• jive
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• honesty
• truthfulness
• veracity
• truism
• confirmation
• verification
• validation
• verity
• authentication
• substantiation

2

as in deceit

the tendency to tell lies

you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything you say

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceit
• deceitfulness
• dishonesty
• untruthfulness
• mendaciousness
• falsehood
• duplicity
• insincerity
• falseness
• cunning
• fakery
• double-dealing
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• guile
• crookedness
• hypocrisy
• wiliness
• craftiness
• artifice
• craft
• trickishness
• guilefulness
• foxiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• integrity
• honesty
• truthfulness
• probity
• veracity
• sincerity
• honor
• frankness
• good faith
• candor
• verity
• reliability
• accuracy
• straightforwardness
• trustworthiness
• dependability
• objectivity
• incorruptibility
• correctness
• candidness
• veraciousness
• credibility
• authenticity
• genuineness
• reliableness
• plainspokenness

Examples of mendacity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Harris-Biden 2024 would short-circuit the mendacity, jealousy and Machiavellian spirits circling 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. —Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024

Still Biden’s mentality, not Trump’s mendacity, was the focus. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024

In practice, the regime has created a militarized republic of fear in which mediocrity is glorified and mendacity institutionalized. —Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2023

Many critics are displaying a combination of ignorance and mendacity, often with a significant dollop of anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. —David Bernstein, National Review, 3 May 2024