Mendacious meaning

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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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False; untrue.

A mendacious statement.

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Not truthful; lying or false.
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(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
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Lying; untruthful.

A mendacious child.

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(of a statement etc) False or untrue.
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Origin of mendacious

From Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth"), from mendāx (“lying").

Sentence Examples

  • In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference.

  • mendacious news is an attempt to discriminate against people.

  • 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.

  • Plot summary: a mendacious loser and an over-sexed jackass go on a week's wine-tasting holiday together.

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