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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 for mendacity
- fable,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fib,
- lie,
- prevarication,
- story,
- tale,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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2
the tendency to tell lies
- you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything you say
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“Mendacity.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mendacity. Accessed 15 December 2019.
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The first known use of mendacity was in 1646
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