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adjective

mendacious

not telling the truth; lying

In a sentence

Six example sentences with mendacious, each labelled with its topic.

  • The pill's mendacious advertising promised weight loss in a week, and regulators pulled every billboard within a month.

    Medicine

  • A mendacious campaign leaflet claimed the bridge was already funded, though the council had never approved a single euro.

    Politics

  • The mendacious training log listed runs the athlete never took, and the coach spotted it from missing watch data.

    Fitness

  • The novel's mendacious narrator tells us he was abroad that summer, though every other chapter places him at home.

    Literature

  • The mendacious sales report listed clients who had never signed, and the auditors caught it within a day.

    Business

  • The explorer's mendacious account claimed a mountain range that later surveyors could never find.

    History

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