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Recent Examples of mendacity By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025 Biden’s half-century political career is littered with mendacity, self-dealing, and crass calculations. The Editors, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024 And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024 Their mendacity has been exposed. Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mendacity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mendacity
Noun
  • Settle into lie-flat leather seating, savor gourmet meals prepared by a private chef, and enjoy a selection of fine wines and spirits.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Like many people, she was taken in by his lies.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the course of eight episodes, the show traces how mounting pressures, deceit and betrayal led to Alex murdering Maggie and Paul in 2021.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The phone call ignited a shocking chain of events that ultimately uncovered Murdaugh’s long history of lies and deceit, culminating in him murdering his wife and son.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is the fourth Hammer Frankenstein film but only the third directed by Terence Fisher – after nine years away from the Baron’s experiments, Fisher returns for a gut-punching tale of undesirable outsiders, execution anxiety, and gender-bent possession.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Lane Neely, a park interpreter for Caddo Lake State Park, told USA TODAY that he's heard tales about a lake creature and a ghostly woman.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This would provide 20 two-story units and eight one-story, one-bedroom units.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Mendacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mendacity. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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