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  • noun Plural form of mendacity.

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Examples

  • Mr. Laurents has also been outspoken throughtout the festival as a supporter of liberal causes, usually finding a way during his talks to make pointed references to the "mendacities" of the current administration.

    April 2004 2004

  • Otherwise, the GOP will employ its usual barrage of mendacities to smoke screen the damage they are causing to public policy and the economy in the name of getting re-elected, and the Democratic candidates will tattoo "WELCOME" on their chests so the muddy footprint of their Republican challenger walking all over them makes them feel like the doormats that they are.

    Brian Ross: This August, Will Voters Remember that the GOP Puts Politics Before Policy? 2010

  • That most of the Hill's leading Republican voices, and their bastions of the airways, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, spew distortions and mendacities by the hour is the constant banter of this publication, the Jon Stewart show, and Stephen Colbert's Fox-mockery.

    Brian Ross: The Steep Distortion Curve of Republican Populism Brian Ross 2010

  • That most of the Hill's leading Republican voices, and their bastions of the airways, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, spew distortions and mendacities by the hour is the constant banter of this publication, the Jon Stewart show, and Stephen Colbert's Fox-mockery.

    Brian Ross: The Steep Distortion Curve of Republican Populism Brian Ross 2010

  • John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.

    Brian Ross: Manufacturing A Phony Job Crisis 2010

  • John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.

    Brian Ross: Manufacturing a Phony Job Crisis 2010

  • As I stood, literally, in Saigon traffic on that hot day last month, I forgave myself for the Jaws theme and all the other random mendacities my mind tends to play.

    Todd Greene: Flight Patterns 2010

  • Otherwise, the GOP will employ its usual barrage of mendacities to smoke screen the damage they are causing to public policy and the economy in the name of getting re-elected, and the Democratic candidates will tattoo "WELCOME" on their chests so the muddy footprint of their Republican challenger walking all over them makes them feel like the doormats that they are.

    Brian Ross: This August, Will Voters Remember that the GOP Puts Politics Before Policy? 2010

  • John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.

    Brian Ross: Manufacturing A Phony Job Crisis 2010

  • John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.

    Brian Ross: Manufacturing A Phony Job Crisis 2010

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