mendacious
given to lying; untruthful
Word origin: From Latin mendax, lying.
Mendacious in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing mendacious in a sentence.
His mendacious account of the accident fell apart under questioning.
The committee dismissed the witness's mendacious testimony once documents contradicted nearly every claim he had made.
Using “mendacious” well
Mendacious means habitually untruthful or characterized by lying, a formal and strongly condemnatory word. Note the look-alike mendicant, which means a beggar and is unrelated.
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