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mendacity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mendacity

1 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

  • highly fictionalized "memoirs" in which the facts were few and the mendacities many
Synonyms of mendacity

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
Words Related to mendacity

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 of mendacity

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification
Antonyms of mendacity

truth

2 the tendency to tell lies

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

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, falsehood, mendaciousness, untruthfulness
Words Related to mendacity

artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, insincerity, trickishness, wiliness

falseness

hypocrisy
Near Antonyms of mendacity

honor, incorruptibility

candidness, candor, frankness, good faith, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardness

dependability, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness

accuracy, objectivity

authenticity, correctness, genuineness

credibility
Antonyms of mendacity

honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, verity

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