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mendacity

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noun men·dac·i·ty \ men-ˈda-sə-tē \

Definition of mendacity

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

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Examples of mendacity in a Sentence

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

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

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First Known Use of mendacity

1646

mendacity Synonyms

Synonyms
fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
Antonyms
truth
Related Words
distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; canard, fallacy, misconception, myth; falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
Near Antonyms
fact, truism, verity; honesty, truthfulness, veracity; authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

MENDACITY Defined for English Language Learners

mendacity

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Definition of mendacity for English Language Learners

  • : lack of honesty : the condition of being mendacious

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