How to Use mendacity in a Sentence

mendacity

noun

• As Thomas Crown might say, regret is a waste of time, as is mendacity.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2020
• In all seriousness, this kind of mendacity tends to catch up to a person.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• What is new is the degree to which voters are prepared to back leaders who seem to revel in their mendacity.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Barr’s mendacity during the Blitzer interview made a lot of news.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• His laughable mendacity on the size of the inaugural crowd set the standard for all the lies that have followed.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
• Claire is taken aback—as much by Jamie's easy mendacity as by his willingness to betray his family.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2017
• Biden has developed a series of verbal tics that tend to either precede or follow some of his more flagrant mendacities.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 15 Sep. 2023
• Johnson’s response displayed all his faults—the bravado and bluster, the shiftiness and mendacity.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
• The Atlantic is proud to publish such hate-inducing mendacity.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019
• The moral of this story is not just the mendacity both campaigns have shown in attack ads on fellow-Republicans.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 2 May 2018
• Finally, many of our leaders have lost credibility through galling acts of hypocrisy and mendacity.
  — John Loftus, National Review, 1 Dec. 2020
• Chomsky’s mendacity does not, in Harris’s opinion, stem from wickedness.
  — Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• His creepy persona reflects the winking mendacity and distracting stunts that typify his real-life rule.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• What a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity, as Big Daddy said.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• The most devastating mendacity — the one that snuffs out the light in us — is the belief that happiness is impossible with us in the picture.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• The Gramscian, Alinskyite mendacity of his actions in this regard should be a scandal to any sane conscience.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• The answer from liberal institutions revealed to be complicit in large-scale violence and mendacity should still be a firm no.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• Politics isn’t a particularly honest business, but still, the mendacity about the border crisis is off the charts.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• What was once seen, on screens and in many the mind’s eye, as the brazen self-branding and narcissism of a reality TV star looks more like simple mendacity.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• For all of its tightness and focus, his singing accounts for his perfectionism, his optimism and his grace, as well as his paranoia, his mendacity and his viciousness.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Still Biden’s mentality, not Trump’s mendacity, was the focus.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
• For all of its tightness and focus, his singing accounts for his perfectionism, his optimismand his grace, as well as his paranoia, his mendacity and his viciousness.
  — Chris Richards, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2019
• Brazilians would have none of it, insisting that Lochte's mendacity was injurious to their country's national pride.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2016
• Thus, the mendacity of the Democrats produces an equal and opposite reaction from the Republicans.
  — Mike Gallagher, National Review, 8 Mar. 2021
• So there would be no respite from the madness, from Donald’s particular blend of mendacity, cruelty, and destructiveness.
  — Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Viewed from an especially merciless or purgatorial angle, certain strands of my life are little more than histories of lo-fi mendacity.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025
• Morris has made a career out of finding truth in the apocryphal, in cutting through layers of delusion and mendacity or at least bringing the artificiality of those layers to the surface.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• As far back as two centuries ago, visitors to Russia complained about its people’s chronic mendacity, undiminished among its leadership today.
  — Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
• As far back as two centuries ago, visitors to Russia complained about its people’s chronic mendacity, undiminished among its leadership today.
  — Max Hastings, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
• But widespread disgust with the mayor’s mendacity and the connivance of eight City Council members is changing the political landscape.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025