Mendacious is an English word with synonyms like lying or untruthful. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mendacious meaning
- Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- False or untrue.
Synonyms of Mendacious
Using Mendacious
- The main meaning on this page is: Lying, untruthful or dishonest. | False or untrue.
- Useful related words include: lying, untruthful, false.
- In the example corpus, mendacious often appears in combinations such as: and mendacious.
Context around Mendacious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mendacious
- In this selection, "mendacious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ignorant, shamelessly, either, advantage, conformity and clown stand out and add context to how "mendacious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as either mendacious or jealous and by their mendacious clown dictator. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mendacious" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mendacious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Suggesting ISI is even a private school is shamelessly mendacious. (10 words)
Morriscum would take pride in such a chart and aspire to be even more mendacious. (15 words)
When “take back control’”, “clean break”, “breaking the shackles”, “standing alone” etc are understood for the mendacious nonsense they are. (20 words)
When actual mummies became unavailable, the sun-desiccated corpses of criminals, slaves and suicidal people were substituted by mendacious merchants. citation The practice developed into a wide-scale business that flourished until the late 16th century. (36 words)
There has always been a large swatch of voters, rightist bloggers and websites that have always been more than ready to believe the worst of the worst about Obama, no matter how outrageous and mendacious. (35 words)
Together, the IG report and the 's "secret history" of the war in Afghanistan portray this establishment as sloppy, ignorant, mendacious, and prone to endorse and act on conspiracies that validate its unexamined biases. (34 words)
Example sentences (13)
A democratic politician has to keep asking himself whether, in his attack on an opponent, he has crossed the line that separates legitimate public criticism from mendacious advantage-seeking.
Mavericks welcomed then are heretics now; an underground of journalism exists (such as this site) in a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Nevertheless, it might be too late for Republican voters, at least the ones who believe every word belched by their mendacious clown dictator.
Strems’ firm was accused by the bar of engaging in “mendacious, bad-faith conduct” and making dishonest or even fraudulent statements to other parties involved in suits, including the court.
There has always been a large swatch of voters, rightist bloggers and websites that have always been more than ready to believe the worst of the worst about Obama, no matter how outrageous and mendacious.
Those who placed their X by the party led by a cynical, callous, duplicitous and mendacious egocentric will have no one but themselves to blame for what’s coming.
Together, the IG report and the 's "secret history" of the war in Afghanistan portray this establishment as sloppy, ignorant, mendacious, and prone to endorse and act on conspiracies that validate its unexamined biases.
When “take back control’”, “clean break”, “breaking the shackles”, “standing alone” etc are understood for the mendacious nonsense they are.
Morriscum would take pride in such a chart and aspire to be even more mendacious.
Suggesting ISI is even a private school is shamelessly mendacious.
There is great value in persuading light-skinned people that race is a mendacious fiction, while white privilege is an indisputable fact.
They will regard him as either mendacious or jealous—both of which charges, as God lives, we have endeavored to avoid as we would a pestilence.
When actual mummies became unavailable, the sun-desiccated corpses of criminals, slaves and suicidal people were substituted by mendacious merchants. citation The practice developed into a wide-scale business that flourished until the late 16th century.
Common combinations with mendacious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: