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1. mendacious
adjective. ['mɛnˈdeɪʃəs'] given to lying.
Antonyms
Etymology
- mendacieux (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
- mendacium (Latin)
Rhymes with Mendacious
- proteinaceous
- perspicacious
- ostentatious
- crustaceous
- vexatious
- predaceous
- loquacious
- flirtatious
- efficacious
- voracious
- vivacious
- tenacious
- sebaceous
- salacious
- ignatius
- horatius
- hellacious
- fallacious
- capacious
- spacious
- herbaceous
- gracious
- ceraceous
- audacious
Sentences with mendacious
1. Adjective
Without being mendacious in any way, subtly re-focus your account of yourself.
Quotes about mendacious
1. In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
2. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker
2. mendacious
adjective. ['mɛnˈdeɪʃəs'] intentionally untrue.
Antonyms
Etymology
- mendacieux (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
- mendacium (Latin)