What's the difference between duplicity and mendacity?

Duplicity


Definition:

  • (n.) Doubleness; a twofold state.
  • (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
  • (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
  • (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (2) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
  • (3) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
  • (4) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
  • (5) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (6) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
  • (7) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
  • (8) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
  • (9) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (10) The authors report a case of total bladder duplication by frontal septum.
  • (11) Control-operated cells with centrosomes left in the karyoplast progress through the cell cycle, duplicate the centrosome, and form clonal cell colonies.
  • (12) Partial duplication of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 5, on the other hand, is associated mainly with musculoskeletal abnormalities including muscle hypotrophy and hypotonia, scoliosis, lordosis, pectus carinatum, cubitus valgus, and genu valgum, in addition to psychomotor retardation.
  • (13) Using fluorescent in situ hybridization and digital imaging microscopy, we mapped probe p32.1 (D11S16) to the proximal part of region 11p14 (11p14.1) and demonstrated duplication of this probe in our patient.
  • (14) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.
  • (15) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
  • (16) The 3' untranslated region of the VMRI gene 11 equivalent contains a clear duplication of a portion of its coding sequence.
  • (17) The regulatory region of the casein gene contains two different TATA signals flanking the duplication site in the promoter region.
  • (18) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
  • (19) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (20) Furthermore, duplications in the vicinity of this locus involving the beta-amyloid gene and the proto-oncogene ets-2 have been reported in association with AD.

Mendacity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
  • (n.) A falsehood; a lie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a time of growing economic inequality and legislative mendacity against the poor, those human needs are still far from met.
  • (2) People eagerly accept such evidence-free claims "because the alternative mean[s] confronting outright mendacity from otherwise respected authorities, trading the calm of certainty for the disquiet of doubt".
  • (3) The mendacity with which a section of the press fanned those flames was nauseating.
  • (4) There is a mendacity about Washington – they want to take a show vote, but they don’t actually want to follow through on what they say.
  • (5) Israeli voters – including Labourites disillusioned by what they saw as Palestinian mendacity and belligerency – felt drawn to the old warrior.
  • (6) But to label it apolitical, as they have repeatedly done, either suggests willful mendacity or ignorance.
  • (7) That’s not the case.” Maybe, according to the opposites-attract principle, Armstrong’s mendacity was what attracted Hodgson: the comedian seems appalled at the thought that he might be duping people.
  • (8) The Chinese used to fill a man's mouth with dry rice, on the basis that the pressure of the untruth would interrupt his production of saliva, making the grains attach helpfully to his cheeks and tongue, to announce his mendacity.
  • (9) Corbyn plan for Labour members to get say on Trident 'against rules' Read more Historians such as Richard Rhodes and Andrew Alexander have catalogued the Nato mendacity and fear-mongering that was the cold war arms race with Russia.
  • (10) Public opposition to immigration in Britain isn't just a product of xenophobia or media mendacity, as sometimes claimed, but people's response to its impact on a deregulated labour market, under-invested housing and slashed public services.
  • (11) His mendacity on localism matters far more to the state of the nation than some minister hypocritically protesting against a library closure .
  • (12) There are times when farce and living caricature almost consume the cynicism and mendacity in the daily life of Australia’s rulers.
  • (13) In the long history of political fakery and mendacity, Cameron is the most effortlessly shameless practitioner – “ no ifs and no buts ”.
  • (14) That mendacity and violence and deceit were the order of the day.
  • (15) But the pretence that Soviet repression reached anything like the scale or depths of Nazi savagery – or that the postwar "enslavement" of eastern Europe can be equated with wartime Nazi genocide – is a mendacity that tips towards Holocaust denial.
  • (16) On Friday, Johnson and Dan Hannan said that in all probability the number of foreigners coming here won’t fall I am not going to be over-dainty about mendacity.
  • (17) What Wisconsin does offer is a transparent illustration of the ideological sophistry and political mendacity driving these attacks.
  • (18) His Eye sets its sights at genuine corruption or hypocrisy or mendacity, rather than offering tittle-tattle.
  • (19) Their posters claiming that AV will cost £250m are pure mendacity: Australia does AV with pencil and paper, no expensive voting machines.
  • (20) The claim is acquiring the same rhetorical emptiness, bordering on mendacity, as did warnings of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.