mendacity

Example Sentences

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The prospect of indictment is a dramatic reminder, if one was needed, of the former president’s essential mendacity and moral bankruptcy.

From Los Angeles Times

Nikita Yuferev, an opposition councillor in the city where Putin was born, said he knew his legal challenge would go nowhere, but he had filed it to expose the "mendacity" of the system.

From Reuters

But what sense can we make of that, after many millions of voters supported Big Lie and election-denying candidates in the face of their obvious mendacity?

From Salon

Indeed, a river of exploitation and mendacity runs through “Descendant,” which draws connections between slavery, post-Reconstruction land grabs and Africatown’s pollution from nearby industries.

From New York Times

Before Donald Trump, Republicans spent decades proclaiming character mattered, until they saw mendacity could win the White House and hold a Senate majority.

From Washington Post