How to Use mendacious in a Sentence

mendacious

adjective

• The newspaper story was mendacious and hurtful.
• Goff doesn’t seem to take a ruthless or mendacious approach to the game.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2020
• To claim the opposite rings hollow at best, if not mendacious.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• So why not just ignore this latest outburst from the mendacious Muscovite?
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• Moderates helped kill reform with mendacious claims that the legislation would hurt the poor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Over the years, Cruz has been called mendacious, ruthless and shamelessly self-promoting.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• The ways of our mendacious media seem to have corrupted Snyder’s real-world vision.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Oct. 2020
• The challenge is reaching them before mendacious narratives do.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• That was bad, but his mendacious campaign against Proposition 30 is of far more consequence.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• Some people believed that a bitter incel must have sneaked into the room that night, intent on punishing this man who had built his success on the mendacious myth of love.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• War is worshipped and justified by the state’s mendacious propaganda machine.
  — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022
• Letters written while events were unfolding appear side by side with memoirs, some thoughtful and others mendacious, written decades later.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Dogged and ingenious interrogation of a mendacious suspect finally gets at the truth.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• But it could be argued that consumers are dealing with many of the same issues, from devious advertising to mendacious propaganda.
  — Michael J. Socolow, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
• Okay, hardly anyone, living or dead, objects any more to the rote recitation of what is actually quite mendacious historical twaddle.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Mar. 2012
• Birx was accused of enabling an incompetent and mendacious President.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The problem is that much of the response on the right has included nasty and mendacious personal attacks on the students, not rational arguments about the wisdom of gun control.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2018
• Joe Biden’s assessment of his first 100 days in office is exaggerated if not outright mendacious.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
• Oberlin alumni who are exhorted to contribute to this college, which has been made stupid and mendacious by politics, should ponder where at least $22 million is going.
  — George Will, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Plus, everybody likes laughing at Ted Cruz, the mendacious eel who has finally departed the presidential race.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 May 2016
• There are the Republicans themselves, who have gone to extravagant, mendacious lengths to ruin Biden’s electoral hopes and destroy his good name in the effort.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
• All this relies on the invention of mendacious attributes, conferring on millions of diverse people implausible character flaws or virtues.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• The mendacious Gray Heron lures Mahito into a dreamlike world with the possibility of bringing back his deceased mother.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• Some of the loudest voices in the party — echoing the party’s mendacious leader-in-exile — recklessly persist in sowing unfounded doubts about our voting system.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• In the dry California hills, an intentional community tries to build a pyre for one of its own, and, in the complex and mendacious aftermath, may end up sort of burning down the nation-state.
  — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
• This is a more volatile moment—and a more volatile President, who has presided over the most mendacious Administration in American history.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• The 2026 State of the Union speech stands in contrast, a speech by a mendacious demagogue who has degraded his listeners by debauching their instincts.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
• The candidate vying for a second White House stint — in the midst of his third overall campaign — has accumulated a long list of acts who do not want to be associated with his divisive, frequently mendacious rhetoric.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2024
• After a similarly poor, though far less mendacious, performance from Biden in the Presidential debate, leaders in his party demanded that the President exit the race.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• Trump’s rage at the committee’s decision to subpoena him for documents and testimony about his role in the insurrection found voice in an all-caps opening line repeating his mendacious claims about the 2020 election.
  — Jane Greenway Carr, CNN, 16 Oct. 2022