(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.
Mendicity
Definition:
(n.) The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is why, among other reasons, it is regrettable that the British approach to China under the coalition has come to have about it something mendicant, cap in hand, and unduly deferential.
(2) Previously, the self-appointed political elite in Scotland has comprised a small, mendicant travelling band of senior politicians, political journalists and an assortment of talking heads who pop up on our television screens whenever there is an election or even just the hint of one.
(3) Whereas for a long time it was assumed that chloride ions were reabsorbed entirely passively with sodium--the "mendicant" role of chloride, more recent studies suggest that several distinct reabsorptive transport mechanisms operate in parallel.
(4) While Nauru in practice is best described as a “mendicant” or even “prostitute” state, its formal status has allowed Australia to put forward the legal fiction that the treatment of refugees on Nauru is a matter for Nauru, not Australia.
(5) Finn, Merivel writes, "describes himself as a portraitist, but leads, I discover, an almost mendicant life in the shires of England, going on foot from one great house to another, begging to paint its inhabitants".
(6) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
(7) The main point of the World Bank study is active community participation which stops the paternalistic government-mendicant demanding populace pathology that is common today.
(8) During this time, too, it was relatively simple to claim housing benefit while subletting my student flat over the summer for nothing to the mendicant men who drank under the bridge in exchange for some of their Giro Party cargo (a dozen cans of Tennent's Super each Tuesday).
(9) Economically misgoverned for a generation, we are reduced to being principle-free economic mendicants, with Bambi Osborne and Thumper Johnson touring the world for hand-outs.