mendacious
given to lying; untruthful
Word origin: From Latin mendax, lying.
Mendacious in a sentence
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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.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
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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