Mendacity synonyms
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(Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
deception (related)
Something that deceives, as an illusion, or is meant to deceive, as a fraud
idiocy (related)
The telling of a lie or lies
lie (related)
Something meant to deceive or mistakenly accepted as true:
(Law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
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Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
The definition of fraud is something said or done in a dishonest way to trick people.
The quality of being insincere
Something untrue; a lie.
(Uncountable) The state of being untruthful; dishonesty.
Lack of veracity; untruthfulness
The breaking of any oath or formal promise
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The state of being truthless, untruthfulness.
veracity (antonym)
Accordance with truth; accuracy of statement
duplicity (related)
self-delusion (related)
hypocrisy (related)
sophistry (related)
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amorality (related)
stupidity (related)
chicanery (related)
venality (related)
hubris (related)
Find another word for mendacity. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mendacity, like: prevarication, falsification, deception, idiocy, lying, lie, deceit, falsehood, fraud, insincerity and untruth.