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Mendacious synonyms

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lying
False; not truthful
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  1. False; not truthful
  2. Disposed to or characterized by untruth:
untrue
Not agreeing with a standard, rule, or measure
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  1. Not agreeing with a standard, rule, or measure
  2. Contrary to fact or truth; false or incorrect
  3. Deviating from a standard; not straight, even, level, or exact.
spurious
(Bot.) Like in appearance but unlike in structure or function
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  1. (Bot.) Like in appearance but unlike in structure or function
  2. Not trustworthy; dubious or fallacious:
  3. Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine:
deceitful
Deceptive in multiple ways
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  1. Deceptive in multiple ways
  2. Deliberately misleading or cheating
  3. Tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat
dishonest
Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.
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  1. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.
  2. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.
  3. Not honest; lying, cheating, etc.
lying
False; not truthful
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  1. False; not truthful
  2. Disposed to or characterized by untruth:
untruthful
Given to telling untruths; likely to tell lies
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  1. Given to telling untruths; likely to tell lies
  2. Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
  3. Telling a lie
Find another word for mendacious. In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mendacious, like: lying, untrue, spurious, false, deceitful, dishonest, lying, untruthful and honest.

Sentence Examples

  • In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference.

  • Spite, resentment at being passed over when Peel formed the 1841 government, is one explanation of these outbreaks, and a letter to Peel, lately published, is proof to many minds that Disraeli's denial to Peel's face in 1846 that he had ever solicited office was daringly mendacious.

  • In the parliament which met on the 12th of February 1376, Lord Latimer and Alice Perrers, the king's mistress, a lady of good birth, and not (as the mendacious St Albans chronicler alleged) the ugly but persuasive daughter of a tiler, were impeached, and Wykeham took a leading part against Latimer, even to the extent of opposing his being allowed counsel.

  • Plot summary: a mendacious loser and an over-sexed jackass go on a week's wine-tasting holiday together.

  • mendacious news is an attempt to discriminate against people.

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