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Definition of mendacity
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
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 of mendacity from the Web
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And so when a politician spews vicious, obvious lies on a near-daily basis — and directs a good portion of that venom at the free press itself — CNN’s anchors and reporters feel compelled to correct and condemn such mendacity.
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Just when a debate erupts over the role of media and mendacity in the shooting of a Republican congressman, the New York Times revives a discredited theory about the six-year-old shooting of a Democratic congresswoman.
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Following the lamentable campaign of 2016, people surely had modest expectations for the manner in which Trump would conduct himself in office, but his belligerence and his mendacity have been astonishing even by his standards.
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First Known Use of mendacity
1646
MENDACITY Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of mendacity for English Language Learners
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: lack of honesty : the condition of being mendacious
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