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[ US /mɛnˈdæsɪti/ ]
[ UK /mɛndˈæsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the tendency to be untruthful

How To Use mendacity In A Sentence

  • In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents. Letters to the Editor
  • It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
  • Face it, he is almost pathological in either his mendacity or in his self-deception.
  • And in these besotted circumstances, I could hardly have been expected to guess mendacity from a few moments of misgiving. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • What's more, the obvious mendacity of the statement renders the argument faulty and therefore a clear case of sophistry.
  • He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism.
  • Vic, your mendacity is so very earnest, it is amusing. Discourse.net: Doctors Support the Public Option
  • You are looking for signs of weakness, for twitches that indicate untruthfulness, for signs of prevarication and mendacity. Dead Zero
  • He felt wounded by what he saw as his friend's mendacity while wishing to keep it out of sight. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
  • The news that David Cameron is picking the wings from Brown like a ruffianly boy with an insect at PMQs does not improve my mood as the odour of mendacity permeates everything while this toxicity infects the country .. He Towers Above Us
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