mendacity

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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

McAfee wrote that “an odor of mendacity remains.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

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