mendacity

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

He may invite passionate opposition from his foes, but his fans simply shrug at his misstatements, malapropisms and mendacity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

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

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