Definitions for mendacity

mendacity men·dac·i·ty

Spelling: [men-das-i-tee]
IPA: /mɛnˈdæs ɪ ti/

Mendacity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 521 anagrams from letters in mendacity (acdeimnty).

Definitions for mendacity

noun

  1. the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
  2. an instance of lying; falsehood.

Origin of mendacity

1640-50; Late Latin mendācitās falsehood, equivalent to Latin mendāci- (stem of mendāx) given to lying, false + -tās -ty2

Examples for mendacity

Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”

Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.

The destruction of a for-profit enterprise is always noble; its defense always carries the whiff of mendacity.

Because Falsehood was blemished in having no feet, she was called mendacium or mendacity.

Roger D. Hodge is the author of The mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism.

That, and his career of mendacity, would start at breakfast.

This concluding paragraph is simply a tissue of mendacity and absurdity.

And Harry had the mendacity to assure her that this was a favorite habit of mine.

His new book, The mendacity of Hope, argues that Obama has betrayed liberalism and the Constitution.

The yellow-press surpassed themselves in clamor and mendacity.

Word Value for mendacity
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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