mendacious

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Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements--mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing Through divers channels some of my fellow-creatures--specimens of the most dreadful prose--have let me know that upon marrying I shall forfeit their usurious regard.

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  1. adjective Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child.
  2. adjective False; untrue: a mendacious statement. See Synonyms at dishonest.

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  • "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong." —  LearnHub Activities
  • Such bans often are, by turns, mendacious, redundant and likely to be ineffective. —  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
  • Oh, if you ask them what their policies are in a simple statement, if they would not be mendacious, they would have to reply: DISRUPTION. —  Think Progress
  • Go Guido - you will earn the nation's undying gratitude if you can nail this mendacious, oily, thieving pederast. —  British Blogs
  • Her material - mendacious, calculating, and shameless. —  Venezuela Analysis
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin mendācium, lie, from mendāx, mendāc-, mendacious.

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  1. = Italian mendace, from Latin mendax (mendaci-), lying, false, akin to mentiri, lie, commentum, a device, a falsehood, comminisci, devise, invent, design: see comment, comment.
 

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