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

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024

This theme of mendacity and impenitence ran throughout Engoron’s ruling.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 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