mendacity

Example Sentences

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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

This goes to the nth degree when it comes to war in this region, where illusion, hypocrisy, and mendacity reign as in few others.

From Slate • May 13, 2024

“However, an odor of mendacity remains,” the judge wrote.

From Seattle 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

If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan