(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.
Tenacity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
(n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
(n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
(n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of plant species containing tannins on the tenacity of Cl.
(2) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
(3) This problem is inherent to the design of catheters using sideports for outflow and is enhanced by the tenacity of the omentum in this population in walling off foreign bodies.
(4) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
(5) Villas-Boas paid £15m to bring the Belgian from Fulham and the signs are that he could prove a bargain, as Dembélé is emerging as one of the most complete midfielders in the Premier League, boasting strength, tenacity, creative passing, tricky dribbling and dangerous shooting.
(6) In the ensuing melee, Giles described Westra van Holthe as not having the “capacity, capability or the tenacity or the professionalism to be the chief minister”.
(7) "And I'm impressed with the tenacity of her client, who is a student at FSU.
(8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
(9) It nearly left these shores forever and I'd like to congratulate the National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund for their tenacity in running such a successful fundraising campaign over the past six months.
(10) They have concluded that medically uncontrollable limbic epilepsy is associated in its physiopathological substrate to: pathological irritability, affective tenacity, impulsiveness, epileptic cognitive dysfunction and abstraction deficiencies of intellectual process.
(11) They took the game to Everton throughout and Tim Howard had to be in fine form to nullify a threat that evaporated after half-time, although the home side’s work-rate, tenacity and defensive organisation impressed.
(12) These tasks must be performed with constant effort and tenacity on the one hand by the state via the necessary public health organizations (personnel, facilities, programming), and on the other by the community as well as by the individual citizen who, being the user and driving force, must take advantage of the benefits and at the same time work for better results through changes in his own behavior and lifestyle.
(13) The tenacity of this habit can be explained in terms of the various psychological motivations for smoking in combination with the physiologic addiction to nicotine.
(14) After a day of scrambling, Giles retained the leadership – with the tenacity-lacking Westra van Holthe as his deputy.
(15) Only then can India hold its head up high again as a country committed to a better world for women, and as the only country in the world that has protested for women with so much vigour and tenacity.
(16) According to studies in cognitive psychology, confirmation bias (a tendency to seek confirming evidence) and theory tenacity (persistent belief in a theory in spite of contrary evidence) pervasively influence actual problem solving and hypothesis testing, often interfering with effective testing of alternative hypotheses.
(17) The president's opponents have consistently underestimated his tenacity throughout the uprising, but their warnings appeared to be echoed by even his staunch ally Moscow when the Kremlin's Middle East envoy Mikhail Bogdanov conceded he might be ousted.
(18) In a show of support the Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, came to the floor and congratulated Paul for his "tenacity and for his conviction".
(19) As a result of their tenacity and resilience, this new reality they helped manifest exposes their younger siblings to a new and more positive trajectory.
(20) But the tenacity of antisemitic beliefs is striking even in Britain, where, according to a separate report last year by Jewish Policy Research, 47% of the British Jewish respondents felt antisemitism was not a very big problem (although 40% did feel antisemitism had increased in the past five years).