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Six example sentences with mendacity, each labelled with its topic.
The committee's report documented such mendacity in the minister's testimony that three separate dates could not be reconciled.
Politics
The study measured mendacity by counting how often subjects claimed to have solved puzzles the software had made impossible.
Psychology
The play turns on the family's mendacity, since every character at the birthday dinner knows a version nobody will say.
Literature
The judge cited the witness's mendacity in her ruling, noting that his account changed each time a document surfaced.
Law
Investors learned of the fund's mendacity only when the audited returns turned out to have been invented for a decade.
Finance
The general's memoirs are famous for their mendacity, claiming victories at battles he reached a day after they ended.
History
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