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noun

mendacity

the tendency to be untruthful

In a sentence

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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