What's the difference between mendacious and perfidious?

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.

Perfidious


Definition:

  • (a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
  • (a.) Involving, or characterized by, perfidy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.
  • (3) A defence ministry statement said the rebels "cynically and perfidiously" shot down the plane using anti-aircraft guns and heavy calibre machine guns.
  • (4) After stating earlier this week that "politics have to reassert primacy over the financial markets", she said that the "speculators are our opponents" and described the banks as "perfidious".
  • (5) Donald Trump's homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and enrich others | Adam Gaffney Read more Pelosi is not alone in her perfidy.
  • (6) Perfidious as Albion may be, the other 27 member states did not want to trigger its departure from the union.
  • (7) In part, this results from the reasonable thinking that the financial crisis, or at least the manner of perfidy that led to it, never ended.
  • (8) What is interesting, however, is that in Italy, the work is done to expose these perfidies: if you go into any Feltrinelli bookshop, you will see shelves of books that detail them, by brave reporters working with equally bold examining magistrates like those in Palermo, past and present.
  • (9) That’s all the perfidy of terrorism, to resort to blackmail, death and threats,” the prime minister, Manuel Valls, told Europe 1 radio.
  • (10) He is drawn back again and again to the perfidy of pretty much everybody in the music industry who doesn’t make music themselves.
  • (11) Realism in foreign policy has a long and distinguished tradition, not least in Britain – otherwise the French would never complain about 'perfidious Albion'.
  • (12) The perfidious Poms will keep the two George Stubbs paintings in Greenwich, London, where they will hang in the National Maritime Museum .
  • (13) So the Journal became a repository of all the woes and disappointed hopes suffered in their "hard and horrible struggle against anonymity": critical indignities, lack of sales, the perfidy of reviewers, the unmerited success of friends (some of whom, like Zola, were celebrated for techniques the Goncourts claimed to have pioneered).
  • (14) She has more in common with Blair, too, than she thinks – in her Chilcot appearance it was striking how blame and perfidy and mistakes lie anywhere but at her door.
  • (15) This is, of course, the traditional role of the perfidious Anglo-American world in the French imagination.
  • (16) For Hollywood, which he called "Shepherd's Bush wrapped in cellophane", and the domestic industry he adapted the act in more than 100 films to roles such as the Roundhead colonel in the British civil-war epic The Scarlet Blade (1963), the perfidious Inspector Fred "Nosey" Parker in The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962), and as Stanley Farquhar, the spy who was as inefficient as the dog in The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966).
  • (17) The perfidies of Albion may be many in the eyes of Scottish nationalists but they do not begin to compare to what Catalans feel about Madrid.
  • (18) But the significance of these savage executions – bodies tortured and torched or dumped in a river – lies in the entwining of ideological and narco violence: two nightmares, two perfidious calculations, in one.
  • (19) The EU budget, to those who moved and supported the rebel amendment, is a symbol of the perfidy of the EU itself.
  • (20) In a recent interview the BBC's Stephen Sackur harangued him about Pakistani perfidy.