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Definition of Mendacities

Mendacities
Mendacity 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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- charges. "The liar", he said, "is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves." The press...
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- that Satan can never claim his soul. After a life of sin, drink, and mendacity, Jack is refused entry to heaven when he dies. Keeping his promise, the...
- Harris concealed through deception. Fuselier adds that Harris engaged in mendacity not merely to protect himself, as Harris rationalized in his journal,...
- For at heart he was a true moralist, fired to root out hypocrisy and mendacity in public life as well as private. Few saw The Plot Against America as...
- liar", from menda "defect, fault" amend, amendment, emend, mendacious, mendacity menstru- monthly Latin menstruus menstrual, menstruation mensur- measure...
- (book reviewer), October 24, 2010, The Washington Post, Review of "The Mendacity of Hope," by Roger D. Hodge, Accessed April 26, 2014, "...Although Hodge...
- occupation of the remainder of Bohemia and Moravia, "which in its unctuous mendacity was remarkable even for the ****s." Churchill's prediction was fulfilled...
- merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it. The phrase is used elsewhere...