MENDACITY Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

mendacity

noun

men-ˈda-sə-tē

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive highly fictionalized "memoirs" in which the facts were few and the mendacities many

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as in deceit

the tendency to tell lies you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything you say

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Recent Examples of mendacity Many critics are displaying a combination of ignorance and mendacity, often with a significant dollop of anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. —

David Bernstein, National Review, 3 May 2024 The image, it was soon discovered, had been edited; every pixel was then examined for manipulation and possible mendacity. —

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024 Nonetheless, some level of mendacity is expected among informants working in a part of the world where misinformation is commonplace, forcing law enforcement officials to sift for germs of useful intelligence. —

Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024 Morris has made a career out of finding truth in the apocryphal, in cutting through layers of delusion and mendacity or at least bringing the artificiality of those layers to the surface. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for mendacity

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Noun

There's also teases of more pod love triangles (of course), social media exposés, lies, and exes potentially still being in the picture (and living in the same building).

— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Many of the former government officials whose lies have resulted in the disastrous policies of the past and the unending wars, particularly in the Middle East, are the most vocal opponents of her nomination.

— Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025