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

I lost count of friends fired only to witness their jobs restored to them because of the efforts of union officials who refused to allow lies and mendacity to prevail.

From Seattle Times

Keefe narrates the book in a strong, clear baritone, a prosecutorial voice remarkably suited to detailing this shameful docket of greed, mendacity, arrogance, callousness, corruption and hypocrisy.

From Washington Post

And Vladimir Putin, who nurses an unassuageable grudge about the way the Cold War ended, seems uninterested in Russia reconciling itself to a role as a normal nation without gratuitous resorts to mendacity.

From Washington Post

He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite.

From Salon