mendacity
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation trains its agents to notice common signs of mendacity in the people they interrogate: a raised eyebrow, a subtle wince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
But he said, “an odor of mendacity remains.”
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
As I’ve explained elsewhere, live TV interviews will always favor those who prefer mendacity.
From Slate ● May 11, 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
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
She internally debated the merit of giving her child mendacities as she told him German nursery rhymes and lightly washed his small body.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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