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mendacity

[ men-das-i-tee ]

noun

plural mendacities
  1. the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.

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  2. an instance of lying; falsehood.

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mendacity

/ m蓻n藞de瑟蕛蓹s; m蓻n藞d忙s瑟t瑟 /

noun

  1. the tendency to be untruthful
  2. a falsehood
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • mendacious, adjective
  • 尘别苍藞诲补肠颈辞耻蝉苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 尘别苍藞诲补肠颈辞耻蝉濒测, adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mendacity1

1640鈥50; < Late Latin 尘别苍诲腻肠颈迟腻蝉 falsehood, equivalent to Latin 尘别苍诲腻肠颈- (stem of 尘别苍诲腻虫 ) given to lying, false + -迟腻蝉 -ty 2
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mendacity1

C17: from Late Latin 尘别苍诲腻肠颈迟腻蝉, from Latin 尘别苍诲腻虫 untruthful
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Those carnal delights hardly seem worth it given the violence and mendacity Stanley has shown himself capable of.

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As historian Randall Balmer explained at Religion News Service, the sleight of hand regarding the timeline was only the beginning of the mendacity religious right leaders brought to their campaign against Carter.

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But it鈥檚 the delusion and mendacity on display at Giuliani鈥檚 press conference that have more powerfully shaped American political culture.

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A case of massive oppositional mendacity that borders on the hilarious 鈥 except that many people believed and continue to believe him, all evidence to the contrary.

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For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump鈥檚 chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.

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