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
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 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
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
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
For it is not mendacities, conscious or other, but veracities, that the Divine Powers will patronize, or even in the end will put up with at all.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
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