mendacity

A few chapters occupy his immediate point of view, but the novel never tries to explain his mendacity and lack of feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

At once menacing and clownish, Martin consistently tripped over his own incompetence, mendacity, and ignorance, ultimately dooming his chances of confirmation.

From Slate ● May 10, 2025

Probably the most notorious and enduring is his assertion that “an odor of mendacity remains” around the testimony of Willis and Wade, specifically as to the timing of their relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

In all seriousness, this kind of mendacity tends to catch up to a person.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

We know merely what disasters his mendacity occasioned.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

Wedgwood wrote about the moral and ethical deficiencies and mendacities of the figures involved in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020

Reading from a carefully worded script, McMaster strung together a series of mendacities and half-truths that appalled his friends and admirers.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018

This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities.

From Time Magazine Archive

While she listened to his purring mendacities she must struggle to refrain from casting his untruths in his teeth.

From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis