Other Word Forms
- mendaciously adverb
- mendaciousness noun
- unmendacious adjective
- unmendaciously adverb
Etymology
Origin of mendacious
Example Sentences
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Director Michael Arden and set designer Dane Laffrey admirably conjure a Georgia of wild contradiction, of gentility and prejudice, of religious faith and mendacious immorality.
From Washington Post
Not content with this slack recklessness, the IOC compounds the risk for everyone by making mendacious statements.
From Washington Post
They balked — and succeeded in running out the clock on Trump’s mendacious claims and his term of office.
From Washington Post
Anti-vaccine activists have long stood at the apex of this mendacious pantheon; since the advent of the internet, they have proven themselves cynically adept at weaponizing social media.
From Salon
And the episode underscores how the shadow of Donald Trump’s presidency — rife with misinformation and mistruths and lies — still lingers, providing Republicans with a mendacious road map for demonizing a political rival.
From Seattle Times
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