mendacity

noun

men·​dac·​i·​ty men-ˈda-sə-tē 

plural mendacities

1

: the quality or state of being mendacious

to blow the whistle on mendacity and hypocrisy

—Geoffrey Wolff

2

: lie

mendacities of the singer's manager

Synonyms

• fable
• fabrication
• fairy tale
• falsehood
• falsity
• fib
• lie
• prevarication
• story
• tale
• taradiddle
• tarradiddle
• untruth
• whopper

Examples of mendacity in a Sentence

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

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

Recent Examples on the Web

But one fact should be repeated, over and over, until the public fully realizes how cynical and destructive Trump’s mendacity is. —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024

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

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1