(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.
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".