not truthful; lying or false
Origin of mendacious
from Classical Latin mendax (gen. mendacis) from Indo-European base an unverified form mend-, a flaw from source Classical Latin emendare, emend
adjective
The definition of mendacious describes a dishonest person or thing.
An example of mendacious used as an adjective is a mendacious person, a dishonest person.
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mendacious
adjective
- Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child.
- False; untrue: a mendacious statement. See Synonyms at dishonest.
Origin of mendacious
From Latin mendācium lie from mendāx mendāc- mendaciousRelated Forms:
- men·da′cious·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)
- (of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest
- (of a statement etc) false or untrue
Origin
From Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendÄcium (“lie, untruth"), from mendÄx (“lying").
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Sentence Examples
- In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference.
- Spite, resentment at being passed over when Peel formed the 1841 government, is one explanation of these outbreaks, and a letter to Peel, lately published, is proof to many minds that Disraeli's denial to Peel's face in 1846 that he had ever solicited office was daringly mendacious.
- In the parliament which met on the 12th of February 1376, Lord Latimer and Alice Perrers, the king's mistress, a lady of good birth, and not (as the mendacious St Albans chronicler alleged) the ugly but persuasive daughter of a tiler, were impeached, and Wykeham took a leading part against Latimer, even to the extent of opposing his being allowed counsel.