Meaning

2 senses

  1. Lying, untruthful or dishonest.

    He was dismissed as a mendacious witness.

    lügnerisch, verlogen, unwahr

    лжи́выйlžívyj

    брехли́вийbrexlývyj

    given to lying

  2. False or untrue.

    mendacious propaganda

    utterly mendacious

    intentionally untrue

Examples

3 sentences

  1. My wife is mendacious for dating another man behind my back.

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  2. Instead of giving me another mendacious story, just be honest for once.

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  3. Tell the truth in a hypocritical, mendacious world, and you'll be taken for insane.

    deSag die Wahrheit in einer heuchlerischen, lügnerischen Welt und du wirst für verrückt gehalten werden.

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Translations

8 languages
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lying, untruthful or dishonest:
Русский
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lying, untruthful or dishonest:
Deutsch
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lying, untruthful or dishonest:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”), + -ious.

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Forms

more mendacious, most mendacious
Comparativemore mendacious Lesson
Superlativemost mendacious Lesson

regular

Synonyms

22 synonyms
falseA1offA1inaccurateB2incorrectB1spuriousC2wrongA1bastardcounterfactualerroneousfallaciouscounterfeitfictitiousinventednonfactual

Word family

4 related words
Relatedmendacity
Derivedmendaciouslymendaciousnessunmendacious

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
menacinglyC2menageriemendB1mendicantmeningitismenopause
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