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Definition of Mendacious
1. Adjective. Given to lying. "A mendacious child"
2. Adjective. Intentionally untrue. "A mendacious statement"
Definition of Mendacious
1. a. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.
Definition of Mendacious
1. Adjective. (context: of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a statement etc) false or untrue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mendacious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mendacious
Literary usage of Mendacious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"In the instance of any arrangement by which recollection is assisted, how natural,
if not necessary and unavoidable, it is, that mendacious invention should ..."
2. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Alfred Bishop Mason, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1881)
""THE WAS OF POLK, THE mendacious." Taylor's dispatch of the 26th of April
reached "Washington on the 9th of May. ..."
3. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... system introduced by this mendacious Government to fetter the people, may
dispel some of their delusions. Let us begin by a comparison with England. ..."
4. Out of Their Own Mouths: A Revelation and an Indictment of Sovietism by Samuel Gompers, William English Walling (1921)
"... FOUNDATION OF BOLSHEVISM —mendacious PROPAGANDA THE Bolshevists have frequently
declared that the foundation of. their whole movement is propaganda. ..."
5. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"Nor when David afterwards, lending a too credulous ear :o the tongue of a mendacious
and dishonest servant, had withdrawn the gifts he had bestowed on him, ..."
6. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"... mendacious than the Parthian s. Her. Partial culture runs to the ornate ;
extreme culture to simplicity. /UT»«. accessory cither before ur after the ..."
7. Mechanism and Personality: An Outline of Philosophy in the Light of the by Francis Asbury Shoup (1891)
"Incompleteness of knowledge. Lack of permanence. Difficulties in arriving at
ultimate principles. The senses mendacious. The intellect open to attack. ..."
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