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

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