The child was known to be mendacious and so could not be trusted. From LearnThat.org.
A mendacious statement. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a mendacious person. ,a mendacious report. From Dictionary.com.
The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Letters of William James II] Reference
Perhaps the term 'mendacious' could be added to Romanus's list. From Wordnik.com. [Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009] Reference
And here he exposes himself as just the kind of mendacious, chicaning, empty bag of wind he has always appeared to be. From Wordnik.com. [À la recherche du temps perdu « Lean Left] Reference
I think that's destructive, I think it's mendacious. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005] Reference
"Must you really go?" asked the mendacious Petronella. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
It's just mendacious that she now turns on the naivete. From Wordnik.com. [Video: Annie Leibovitz and Miley Cyrus: Vanity Fair] Reference
Starr looked less mendacious than righteously indignant. From Wordnik.com. [The Starr Chamber] Reference
GILL: Oh, I mean, mendacious, I think is the polite word. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2003] Reference
Because he was misguided whereas they, we, are mendacious. From Wordnik.com. [Judas Died for Somebody's Sins, But Not Mine: James Wolcott] Reference
"An 'for good reason," declared the mendacious storekeeper. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
It is a much smoother, more anodyne - and mendacious piece. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The temptation will be to depict Lewinsky as a mendacious vixen. From Wordnik.com. [How Strong Is Starr's Case?] Reference
My correspondent's letters were much more mendacious compositions. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
With this mendacious explanation Gustavus was forced to be content. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Let's be charitable and assume you're a fool rather than mendacious. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Jim muttered a courteous and most mendacious disclaimer of Miss Sylla's. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Party journalism in the Province of Quebec is peculiarly bitter and mendacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
After these mendacious statements he would wend a gloomy way homeward to his Pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
To the silver faction, their opponents were "mendacious hirelings" and "Gilded Shylocks.". From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
As long as we have that state of things, we shall have wars and secret and mendacious diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
The following dialogue is a specimen of the talents of the aforementioned mendacious personages. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
"I hope, sir, you do not mean me to infer that you are mendacious?" the old gentleman sternly rejoined. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The so-called liberal press gets accused of all kinds of mendacious behavior, but this one is really low. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2008] Reference
Searle himself had employed so persistently, many of them grossly mendacious, as Beth was sufficiently aware. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Needless to say, former chairman Kenneth Lay is a mendacious person and a product of America's capitalist system. From Wordnik.com. [The Mideast Showdown] Reference
His clerk was absent serving papers in Etruria, and, hanging a mendacious "Back-in-1-Hour" sign on his outer door. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Digesting my disgust as best I could, I lighted my cheroot with the mendacious foolscap and blushed for my species. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Had PUNCH not proved that he (Mr. Roebuck) had a father, which the "mendacious journal" had asserted was impossible?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference
"Very dark; but many people are dark, of course; and for my part I always liked dark eyes," said this mendacious person. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
It never occurred to that subtle, devious mind that an outward display of frankness might be more mendacious than any evasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every U.S. war -- no matter how mendacious or horrific -- is worthy of veneration. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: A Speech for Endless War] Reference
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