Mendacity
noun
The habit of not telling the truth.
His story was filled with contradictions and revealed his mendacity.
Often appears as...
- trait of mendacity
- reveal one's mendacity
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Disapproving
noun
A lie or false statement, especially with the intention to deceive.
His speech was full of mendacities designed to improve his image.
Often appears as...
- full of mendacity
- mendacity in statements
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Disapproving
noun
The habit of not telling the truth.
His story was filled with contradictions and revealed his mendacity.
Often appears as...
- trait of mendacity
- reveal one's mendacity
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A lie or false statement, especially with the intention to deceive.
His speech was full of mendacities designed to improve his image.
Often appears as...
- full of mendacity
- mendacity in statements
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Habitual Dishonesty
Mendacity as a habit means someone consistently lies or avoids the truth.
The politician's mendacity was evident in every promise he failed to keep.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Mendacity has a negative implication, suggesting moral disapproval of lying.
The teacher scolded the student for his mendacity during the examination.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Mendacity involves intentional lying, not just being incorrect by mistake.
Her mendacity about her qualifications got her into trouble when the truth came out.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitual Dishonesty
Mendacity as a habit means someone consistently lies or avoids the truth.
The politician's mendacity was evident in every promise he failed to keep.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Mendacity has a negative implication, suggesting moral disapproval of lying.
The teacher scolded the student for his mendacity during the examination.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Mendacity involves intentional lying, not just being incorrect by mistake.
Her mendacity about her qualifications got her into trouble when the truth came out.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitual Dishonesty
Mendacity as a habit means someone consistently lies or avoids the truth.
The politician's mendacity was evident in every promise he failed to keep.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Mendacity has a negative implication, suggesting moral disapproval of lying.
The teacher scolded the student for his mendacity during the examination.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Accidental
Mendacity involves intentional lying, not just being incorrect by mistake.
Her mendacity about her qualifications got her into trouble when the truth came out.
Compare with
deceitfuldishonestyduplicityfabricatefalsehoodfraudulenceperjuryprevaricate
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Iain Hutchison: Saving...
with judging the moving face. We think we can judge people on their expressions. U.K. jurors in the U.K. justice system like to see a live witness to see whether they can pick up the telltale signs of mendacity -- the blink, the hesitation.
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Iain Hutchison: Saving...
with judging the moving face. We think we can judge people on their expressions. U.K. jurors in the U.K. justice system like to see a live witness to see whether they can pick up the telltale signs of mendacity -- the blink, the hesitation.
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Quote examples
Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or institution that he finds threatening or useful as a scapegoat - Mr. Trump is attempting the Orwellian trick of redefining American reality on his own terms.
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Timothy D. Snyder
American Author
Trump's Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a proclamation to vulnerable men across the land that endless preening and stroking is a normal and imitable way of life.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
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Tennessee Williams
American Dramatist
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or institution that he finds threatening or useful as a scapegoat - Mr. Trump is attempting the Orwellian trick of redefining American reality on his own terms.
Quote examples
Timothy D. Snyder
American Author
Trump's Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a proclamation to vulnerable men across the land that endless preening and stroking is a normal and imitable way of life.
Quote examples
Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
Quote examples
Tennessee Williams
American Dramatist
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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