(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.
Untruthful
Definition:
(a.) Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clapper has since admitted that was the "least untruthful" answer he could have given.
(2) Getting your child a place in your local school becomes more and more difficult; there is more competition for jobs; wages are held down.” As the war of words heightened, the Tory former PM Sir John Major accused the leave side of telling deliberate untruths.
(3) The second alleged untruth surrounds the police claim that they properly investigated the use of the gun Duggan had in a pistol whipping attack weeks before he collected it.
(4) Leahy, joined by ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, criticised director of national intelligence James Clapper for making untruthful statements to Congress in March about the bulk phone records collection on Americans, and NSA director Keith Alexander for overstating the usefulness of that collection for stopping terrorist attacks.
(5) Describing how his reputation had been destroyed by Rowland's "untruths", the former chief whip, who lost his job over the row, said the officer's claims that he called the police "plebs" and swore at them were "made up and disseminated" by Rowland himself.
(6) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(7) The family of Ian Tomlinson said Scotland Yard’s statement marked the end of a long legal battle in the face of untruthful accounts and obstruction by PC Simon Harwood, who assaulted Tomlinson, and other officers.
(8) There were so many stories, so many rumours, so many repeated untruths, so many unchecked facts and retweeted opinions, and half-baked half-lies, that the story, let alone the truth, never had a chance.
(9) Bob Shrum , a Democratic consultant who worked for Al Gore and John Kerry, said: “The untruths are more noticeable now because they’re in the White House but her pattern all along was to say whatever pops into her head that she thinks defends [Trump].
(10) Whatever, he should not be allowed to get away with untruths.
(11) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
(12) Voters in Stoke who previously said they’d vote for him are sure to be put off as Ukip is revealed as just another political party peddling in untruths.
(13) Cameron accused the leave side of “resorting to total untruths to con people into taking a leap in the dark: it’s irresponsible and it’s wrong and it’s time that the leave campaign was called out on the nonsense that they are peddling.” But instead of forcing the other side to defend its claims, Cameron’s attack fed an atmosphere of general detachment from rational argument and empirical evidence.
(14) It's surely not just me who, reading this, thinks of the government telling us, in the brazen untruth akin to O'Brien convincing Winston Smith that two plus two equals five, that we're all in this together.
(15) "The picture painted for the PAC by the BBC Trust witnesses on 10 July 2013 was – in addition to specific untruths and inaccuracies – fundamentally misleading about the extent of Trust knowledge and involvement," he writes.
(16) They have – knowingly – told untruths about the cost of Europe .
(17) Burke asks him to withdraw an "untruthful statement".
(18) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
(19) He said the NSA had no such program – and then added that that was the least "untruthful" remark he could make.
(20) In the document leaked onThursday, Thompson accuses the two of trading in "specific untruths and inaccuracies".