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Mendacity is an English word with synonyms like untruthfulness or veracity. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Mendacity in a sentence

Mendacity meaning

  1. The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
  2. A deceit, falsehood, or lie.

Synonyms of Mendacity

Using Mendacity

  • The main meaning on this page is: The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty. | A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
  • Useful related words include: untruthfulness, veracity.
  • In the example corpus, mendacity often appears in combinations such as: and mendacity, mendacity is, his mendacity.

Context around Mendacity

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Mendacity

  • In this selection, "mendacity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, casual, disingenuous, incontinent, outrageous, duplicity and seems stand out and add context to how "mendacity" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include barr s mendacity during the and chicanery casual mendacity outrageous divisiveness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mendacity" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mendacity

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Can America endure such mendacity? (5 words)

Barr’s mendacity during the Blitzer interview made a lot of news. (12 words)

Mendacity is a vocabulary word, and the border is 2400 kilometres away. (12 words)

Because Twitter is an echo chamber and the is one-tracked, he does this safe in the knowledge that those whom his mendacity incites to outrage will never read the primary sources he is corrupting — and that, if they do, they will never comprehend them. (45 words)

His novel Komendiantka paints the drama of a rebellious girl from the provinces who joins a traveling theater troupe and finds, instead of escape from the mendacity of her native surroundings, a nest of intrigue and sham. (37 words)

All around him, we see a vast cadre of the hushed: people likely paid, bullied, or otherwise maneuvered into silence or mendacity on his behalf — lawyers, congressmen, spokespersons, wives, children, campaign officials. (32 words)

Can America endure such mendacity? (5 words)

Example sentences (17)

Reggie, newly aware of Doug’s mendacity, is determined to get back home and, well, bite off Doug’s favorite body part.

For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump’s chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.

His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

Barr’s mendacity during the Blitzer interview made a lot of news.

Can America endure such mendacity?

And it was Trump’s mendacity and boobery Walsh emphasized on Sunday, not his ideology, such as it is.

As for the ‘Prime Minister’, in office but not in power, Johnson’s disingenuous mendacity seems to have trussed himself up like a turkey ready for Christmas.

Because Twitter is an echo chamber and the is one-tracked, he does this safe in the knowledge that those whom his mendacity incites to outrage will never read the primary sources he is corrupting — and that, if they do, they will never comprehend them.

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Boris Johnson has been accused of ‘incontinent mendacity’ by Aidan O’Neill QC.

For whatever you think of the Remain case, you should accept that, out of stupidity and mendacity, the proponents of Brexit never spelled out the hard choices.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the council of “setting new records for hypocrisy and mendacity, out of an obsessive hatred of Israel.

All around him, we see a vast cadre of the hushed: people likely paid, bullied, or otherwise maneuvered into silence or mendacity on his behalf — lawyers, congressmen, spokespersons, wives, children, campaign officials.

I find this incessant propaganda campaign unleashed by my cynics to sully my image and poop on my reputation through flimsy lies and mendacity to be trifling, petty and childish.

Jason Sudeikis does the best and most sensitive work of his acting career and Ed Harris is typically first-ratea combination of raw mendacity and hidden humanity.

Mendacity is a vocabulary word, and the border is 2400 kilometres away.

Somehow, he always found a way to dribble himself out of the maze of his own mendacity.

His novel Komendiantka paints the drama of a rebellious girl from the provinces who joins a traveling theater troupe and finds, instead of escape from the mendacity of her native surroundings, a nest of intrigue and sham.

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Common combinations with mendacity

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "mendacity" in a sentence?
An example: "Reggie, newly aware of Doug’s mendacity, is determined to get back home and, well, bite off Doug’s favorite body part." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "mendacity" from authentic English texts.
What does "mendacity" mean?
Mendacity means: The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
What are synonyms of "mendacity"?
Common synonyms of "mendacity" include: untruthfulness, veracity.
How many example sentences with "mendacity" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "mendacity", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.