Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
- n. A lie; a falsehood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being mendacious; a disposition to lie or deceive; habitual lying.
- n. A falsehood; a lie.
Wiktionary
- n. The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
- n. A lie, deceit or falsehood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
- n. A falsehood; a lie.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the tendency to be untruthful
Etymologies
- From post-classical Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendāx ("lying"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$
“Vic, your mendacity is so very earnest, it is amusing.”
“In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents.”
“However, only one example of "arrogance", over the iPhone 4 antenna (which could just as easily be described as mendacity or confusion or cock-up) is cited.”
“Obama continues to tell such basic lies, such outright distortions of reality, that it must be called the mendacity it is.”
“We were merely trying to discover the degree of your mendacity, which is pretty well complete, and your trustworthiness, which does not appear to exist.”
“Luther is charged with mendacity, that is, he is said to have lied.”
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
“Further proof of his mendacity will be his attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference in Denmark.”
“Those of you, dear readers, who are not used to the kind of mendacity practiced in the heartland of America must think the headlines of the past several days border on the absurd.”
“In place of what he terms Mr Bush's "mendacity", he seeks the candour of Barak Obama.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mendacity’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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GRE Study guide
Going through the Magoosh website, words I pulled from the verbal section. 2012.
magnanimous, correlate, anglicized, simulacrum, tantamount, obsequiousness, subterfuge, vehement, vociferous, benign, concomitant, veracity and 83 more...
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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Old words
recalcitrant, grok, Hiatus, shanghai, pervade, diffuse, tempestuous, incorrigible, daunt, cull, Erudite, Assuage and 35 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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My preparation
for GRE ofcourse
exonerate, incipient, disparate, morbid, engross, ebullient, predilection, propensity, allure, qualms, chastise, perpetuate and 111 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mendacity.
Casey "He spoke in the hoarse, cadenced tones of a lifelong teller of tales--one of those devine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs strung with drops of dew." From Stephen King's The Wastelands Jan 1, 2011
seanmeade great word from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Mar 30, 2007