mendacious

[men-dey-shuhs]

adjective

1. telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful.

   a mendacious person.

   Antonyms: veracious

2. false or untrue.

   a mendacious report.

   Antonyms: veracious

Other Word Forms

• mendaciously adverb
• mendaciousness noun
• unmendacious adjective
• unmendaciously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of mendacious¹

1610–20; < Latin mendāci- ( mendacity ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Perhaps the quintessentially mendacious treatment of the subsidy issue came from Dean Clancy of Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded right-wing think tank.

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Then again, how can there be with such a mendacious, felonious, libertine as their standard bearer?

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Meanwhile, Israeli PM Netanyahu welcomed the decision, calling it a "firm measure against the mendacious smear campaign against" Israel.

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Sentencing, Lord Arthurson said each of the men were "self-serving, arrogant and mendacious", adding they had "subverted public trust in NHS management".

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It's a sign of the delusional self-confidence in their own mendacious powers that the tech oligarchs who are financing this idiotic idea insist on going with that branding anyway.

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