Definitions for mendacious

mendacious men·da·cious

Spelling: [men-dey-shuh s]
IPA: /mɛnˈdeɪ ʃəs/

Mendacious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1117 anagrams from letters in mendacious (acdeimnosu).

Definitions for mendacious

adjective

  1. telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful:
  2. false or untrue:

Origin of mendacious

1610-20; Latin mendāci- (see mendacity) + -ous

Examples for mendacious

But too few Democrats—and almost no media commentators—have countered the mendacious right-wing storyline.

They created well-intentioned rules—which most mendacious lobbyists have found a way to ignore legally.

The mendacious fiction was framed by the chief priests and elders of the people.

Angie said suddenly and turned with a mendacious inspiration on her brother.

Erdogan's description of Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians as "genocidal" is mendacious and inflammatory.

With this mendacious explanation Gustavus was forced to be content.

Why call his speech before the United Nations “defamatory and venomous… full of mendacious propaganda?”

Party journalism in the Province of Quebec is peculiarly bitter and mendacious.

Bein' a woman, you're too feeble-witted for reason, too mendacious for trooth.'

Ross Douthat wrote in The New York Times that the media coverage of the bill was “mendacious” and “hysterical.”

Word Value for mendacious
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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