mendaciously

Example Sentences

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I mouthed back, mendaciously, and kept it moving.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023

If there is very little faith, it was mendaciously eroded not by facts but by the same people now attempting to profit from it.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2021

His only defense is to attack—recklessly, mendaciously and unrelentingly.

From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2017

If properly executed, that sort of thing might have some resonance, although the ready answer is that, rather than mendaciously engaging in some woman-destroying scheme, she had simply trusted her husband.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

"I'm not disagreeable," replied Christopher mendaciously; "only I can not let you be taken in by a stuck-up fool without trying to open your eyes; I shouldn't be your friend if I could."

From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft