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
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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
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Recent Examples of mendacity
By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
Biden’s half-century political career is littered with mendacity, self-dealing, and crass calculations.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024
And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Their mendacity has been exposed.
—Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
Biden’s half-century political career is littered with mendacity, self-dealing, and crass calculations.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024
And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Their mendacity has been exposed.
—Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for mendacity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mendacity
Noun
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And then everything else about the money is just another lie.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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His lurid saga — set in the tropics, the plot revolving around deceit and a dead body — would be just the sort of onscreen story PMI specialized in financing.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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And in a world where time is money, conditions are ripe for a perfect storm of greed, deceit, and willful gullibility—all in the hope of getting ahead faster than the rest.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Then, in February, after an early version of the site was ready, a story about Shield Seniors and Tejasvi appeared in the Dallas Observer, bringing her to the attention of the people at AARP.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Mendacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mendacity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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