About The Word Mendacity
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Mendacity
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What's The Definition Of Mendacity?
[n] the tendency to be untruthful
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mendacity: Related Terms | Find terms related to Mendacity: blague | boggling | caviling | cock-and-bull story | credibility gap | dishonesty | dodging | equivocation | exaggeration | fairy tale | falsehood | falsity | farfetched story | farrago | fib | fibbery | fibbing | fiction | fish story | flam | flimflam | ghost story | half-truth | hedging | legal fiction | lie | little white lie | lying | mendaciousness | mythomania | pious fiction | prevarication | pseudology | quibbling | shifting | sidestepping | slight stretching | story | tale | tall story | tall tale | taradiddle | trumped-up story | truthlessness | untruth | untruthfulness | unveraciousness | white lie | yarn See Also | untruthfulness Mendacity In Webster's Dictionary \Men*dac"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Mendacities}. [L.
mendacitas.]
1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
lying. --Macaulay.
2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne.
Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.
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