What's the difference between liar and mendacious?

Liar


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
  • (3) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (4) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
  • (5) If that is not enough, a rogue former special adviser to Gove, Dominic Cummings, has taken to attacking the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as a liar over the free school meals-for-all policy.
  • (6) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
  • (7) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
  • (8) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
  • (9) cries Gary Naylor, making a liar of me and the cast-iron GUARDIAN NO-SUAREZ GUARANTEE™ in the preamble.
  • (10) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
  • (11) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
  • (12) Reacting to Johnson’s appointment as foreign secretary two weeks ago, Ayrault described him as a liar with his back against the wall .
  • (13) The independent member for Arnhem, Larissa Lee, accused Giles of being a liar and of putting a “wedge between people” and running a “toxic” leadership.
  • (14) The outburst came less than a month after the Conservative candidate came under fire for calling Livingstone a "fucking liar" in a lift after a row over their respective tax arrangements.
  • (15) But her father was able to produce her birth certificate, proving she was only 16; thereby exposing the Tehran regime as liars and child killers.
  • (16) Abbott’s adamant and explicit pre-election policy commitments of “ no cuts ” to education, pensions, health, the ABC or SBS has marked him as a liar.
  • (17) It's not nice feeling that someone thinks you're a liar, so I want her to know I'm OK.
  • (18) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
  • (19) His latest book is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.
  • (20) Livingstone also revealed what happened in the famous lift incident two weeks ago, when Johnson went nose to nose with him after an on-air exchange about their respective tax arrangements, and called the Labour mayoral candidate "a fucking liar".

Mendacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.
  • (a.) False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (2) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
  • (3) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
  • (4) Sherborne suggested that it would be for Dacre to explain why Associated was sticking by its "mendacious smears" comment when he appears before the inquiry on 6 February.
  • (5) It's a form of national employment, but it's a profoundly mendacious, dangerous, costly worldwide position to maintain, so similar to Winston Churchill's impossible dream during the Second World War of preserving the British Empire.
  • (6) To try to keep up with the welter of environmental claims, test the green spin and spot the green frauds, the Guardian is launching today a regular online column, Greenwash, and calls on readers to submit their examples of the fraudulent, mendacious, confusing, ignorant or just daft claims jostling for our attention.
  • (7) Indeed, by Monday night, the Mail on Sunday had described Grant's claims, including one that his phone had been hacked by the paper, as "mendacious smears" and named his ex-girlfriend Jemima Khan as their source, which Khan denied on Twitter.
  • (8) "Mendacious smear, some would say was going miles too far," he said.
  • (9) The fate of the farm animals was so grim, the pigs were so mean and mendacious and treacherous, the sheep were so stupid.
  • (10) These characterisations are false, going on mendacious.
  • (11) In its main editorial , the NRA executive vice-president was attacked for his "mendacious, delusional, almost deranged rant."
  • (12) "I do lean towards the delusional rather than the mendacious," he said.
  • (13) Ordinary people have no real ability to undo the damage of a misleading and mendacious front-page story.
  • (14) Of all the mendacious nonsense that pours out of politicians' mouths, David Cameron's claim that British combat troops will be coming home from Afghanistan with their "mission accomplished" is in a class all of its own.
  • (15) A measure of rapprochement with Labour and an end to mendacious attacks is the best way to distance themselves from their Tory captors.
  • (16) We underestimated their willingness to be mendacious and xenophobic,” he said.
  • (17) Victors usually write history, so where is Tony Blair to tell of all he achieved and rebut the mendacious narrative of the coalition?
  • (18) In a tense exchange on the subject lasting more than an hour, Hartley said that in her view the group would "stand by" its "mendacious smears" allegation.
  • (19) Osborne's predecessor, Alistair Darling, accused him on Radio 4's Today programme of being "mendacious" in insisting that the government had to slash spending or risk a Greek-style meltdown.
  • (20) The character found an echo in the witty, if talkative, The Honey Pot (1967), where he was cast as Rex Harrison's mendacious secretary.