mendacious

How To Use mendacious In A Sentence

• It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
• That promise has been revealed as mendacious nonsense.
• Remember that you started all this for your own mendacious ends. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
• It makes me think we are dealing with a vain mendacious man who clung to power as long as he possibly could wrapped in a cloud of vainglory and falsehood, when he should have had the good grace to go quietly long ago.
• Rovere, or of other smaller fry who have lent their helot's pens to weave mendacious records of her life, dubbing her murderess, adulteress, and Heaven knows what besides -- I will but refer them to the archives of Ferrara, whose Duchess she became at the age of one-and-twenty, and where she reigned for eighteen years. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
• It never occurred to that subtle, devious mind that an outward display of frankness might be more mendacious than any evasion. THE THORN BIRDS
• 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
• By the end - though of course they are much too polite to say so - I can see they are thinking that I must be either completely senile or completely mendacious.
• He's mendacious and obnoxious, so what accounts for his appeal?
• a mendacious statement