as in misleading
telling or containing lies
that tabloid routinely publishes the most moronically mendacious stories about celebrities
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Recent Examples of mendacious
Florida’s mendacious leaders only darken the nightmare.
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Jake Cline, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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
This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
The administration of President Joe Biden has been steadfast in its refusal to criticize López Obrador’s security policies, avoiding confrontation even when the Mexican president has publicly attacked U.S. law-enforcement agencies as mendacious and corrupt.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
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Jake Cline, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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
This is a crabbed and mendacious interpretation of the law.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
The administration of President Joe Biden has been steadfast in its refusal to criticize López Obrador’s security policies, avoiding confrontation even when the Mexican president has publicly attacked U.S. law-enforcement agencies as mendacious and corrupt.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mendacious
Adjective
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Truth oaths are not just for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service but for many different companies that want to curb dishonest behavior or that ask employees to report information that is difficult to verify.—
IESE Business School,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Greta’s stealth revolution may look natural, but the change is weak and dishonest.—
Armond White,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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According to the Financial Times, the erroneous internal transfer occurred in April 2024 and was missed by a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was cleared to be processed at the start of business the next day.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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Our inquiry to the hospital was due to an erroneous order of a separate inpatient stay request.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement on June 1 was terribly misguided, and his justification for doing so was misleading and untruthful.—
Robert N. Stavins,
Foreign Affairs,
5 June 2017
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What is more untruthful: A thing written down, or a sustained deception of the heart?—
Nicolette Polek,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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To illustrate, in the United Kingdom vaccinations took a considerable dip in the early 2000s after Wakefield’ false claims of a link between the MMR shot and autism were posted in the media.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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In those documents, West discussed not only how to conduct experiments to implant false memories, instill specific mental disorders, and induce trance states, but also how to hide them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Mendacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mendacious. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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