mendacious

• “The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.”

  Familiar Letters of William James II

• “The suggestion that 40 million people died because of the power of words might seem trite until one recalls the mendacious blabberings of the leaders of a war we are still fighting.”

  The Book Thief: Summary and book reviews of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

• “Perhaps the term 'mendacious' could be added to Romanus's list.”

  Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009

• “The first hour of the hearing was dominated by Department of Public Health head Mitchell Katz's "mendacious" set of statistics, followed by the uber-flack Sam Singer saying that everything was okay.”

  Rich White Liberals Murdering Black People in San Francisco

• “And here he exposes himself as just the kind of mendacious, chicaning, empty bag of wind he has always appeared to be.”

  À la recherche du temps perdu « Lean Left

• “During six months spent by the "mendacious" Pinto on the island, the imitative people made no fewer than six hundred match-locks or arquebuses.”

  The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji

• “By the way - though I imagine you were merely trying to denigrate others and be oh so cute - the word is "mendacious" … not "mendoucheous", which isn't even phonetically correct.”

  Patterico's Pontifications

• “Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future.”

  Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers

• “You end up with the mendacious garbled into incoherence.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened

• “Brooks is a mendacious, lying, pimp-shit of the “have-more” class, which exemplifies the very attitude of entitlement it exploits for profit by attributing it to the “have-nots””

  Think Progress » New York Times urged to issue correction for David Brooks’ column.

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