How to Use mendacious in a Sentence

mendacious

adjective
  • The newspaper story was mendacious and hurtful.
  • Goff doesn’t seem to take a ruthless or mendacious approach to the game.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2020
  • This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Among the Afghan venders, the worst of the tamale wars took place in Seattle, where the trade was dominated by a Khan with a mafioso reputation: mean, mendacious, scary as hell.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2016
  • And yet — here is Citizen Ned, self-invented, mendacious, enabled by his supporters, the rich and the not-so-rich alike.
    — Laura Lippman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
  • So why not just ignore this latest outburst from the mendacious Muscovite?
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
  • Over the years, Cruz has been called mendacious, ruthless and shamelessly self-promoting.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Moderates helped kill reform with mendacious claims that the legislation would hurt the poor.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The ways of our mendacious media seem to have corrupted Snyder’s real-world vision.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Oct. 2020
  • That was bad, but his mendacious campaign against Proposition 30 is of far more consequence.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Some people believed that a bitter incel must have sneaked into the room that night, intent on punishing this man who had built his success on the mendacious myth of love.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2020
  • Johnson has not, yet, proved himself to be as aggressively mendacious as Trump.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 18 July 2019
  • There are the Republicans themselves, who have gone to extravagant, mendacious lengths to ruin Biden’s electoral hopes and destroy his good name in the effort.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • One of the pillars of the Soviet Union was a controlled press in which all coverage was organized to confirm a mendacious ideology.
    — David Satter, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
  • There is great value in persuading light-skinned people that race is a mendacious fiction, while white privilege is an indisputable fact.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The mendacious Gray Heron lures Mahito into a dreamlike world with the possibility of bringing back his deceased mother.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But Trump would more accurately be described as a violent demagogue and a mendacious racist.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 13 July 2020
  • But those rifts are nothing compared to the enmity between the media and Trump, who has repeatedly trashed journalists as some of most dishonest and mendacious people in the country.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • The challenge is reaching them before mendacious narratives do.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Even under a president as mendacious as Nixon, the political universe was still bounded by a shared sense of reality.
    — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Oberlin alumni who are exhorted to contribute to this college, which has been made stupid and mendacious by politics, should ponder where at least $22 million is going.
    — George Will, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • Oberlin alumni who are exhorted to contribute to this college, which has been made stupid and mendacious by politics, should ponder where at least $22 million is going.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 20 June 2019
  • This is a more volatile moment—and a more volatile President, who has presided over the most mendacious Administration in American history.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The result is a mendacious muddle, in which only one conclusion can be drawn: The elites are hiding something—likely something very sinister—from everyone else.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Joe Biden’s assessment of his first 100 days in office is exaggerated if not outright mendacious.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Plus, everybody likes laughing at Ted Cruz, the mendacious eel who has finally departed the presidential race.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 May 2016
  • But it could be argued that consumers are dealing with many of the same issues, from devious advertising to mendacious propaganda.
    — Michael J. Socolow, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
  • Letters written while events were unfolding appear side by side with memoirs, some thoughtful and others mendacious, written decades later.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • The C.D.C. produced, in 2004, a mendacious paper concluding that water-lead levels in the city were lower and less concerning than had been reported, and that no children with dangerously high blood-lead levels had been found.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2016
  • War is worshipped and justified by the state’s mendacious propaganda machine.
    — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022

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