See mendacity on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply”, in The Observer, London, archived from the original on 2017-05-17:",
"text": "So now the hard Brexiters say, with astonishingly cynical mendacity, that Britain would be better off going it alone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 March 23, Jack Waterford, “Prime Minister's ever-diminishing credibility”, in The Canberra Times, Canberra:",
"text": "A shifty or unreliable politician may hide their mendacity behind deceit, fabrication on confabulation, or by rehearsed counter-attack that simply ignores the questions but makes imputations against the other.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty."
],
"links": [
[
"untruthful",
"untruthful"
],
[
"dishonesty",
"dishonesty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, “Visit to Dresden”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great. … In Four Volumes, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, →OCLC, book VI, page 30:",
"text": "The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1875, John Howard Hinton, Samuel L[orenzo] Knapp, John O. Choules, William A. Crafts, chapter CXXXIII, in History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement of the Country. By John Howard Hinton, A.M. With Additions by Samuel L. Knapp, Esq., and John O. Choules, D.D. And a Continuation from the Inauguration of President Pierce to the Inauguraion of President Grant. By William A. Crafts, A.M., volume III, Boston, Mass.: Samuel Walker and Company, →OCLC, page 481, column 1:",
"text": "Though the rebels had utterly failed in their purposes, having accomplished nothing but the temporary disabling of two lightly armed vessels, and had retreated before the approach of the only formidable vessel there, they formally, and with a mendacity equalled only by some of their own efforts in that direction, proclaimed that they had \"driven out of sight, for a time, the entire hostile fleet,\" and that the blockade of the port of Charleston was raised.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Jack Shafer, “Donald Trump’s Fake News Mistake”, in Politico:",
"text": "He would have you believe that every error we make is deliberate, that journalists have somehow ginned up a unified conspiracy of lies and mendacities against him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A deceit, falsehood, or lie."
],
"links": [
[
"deceit",
"deceit"
],
[
"falsehood",
"falsehood"
],
[
"lie",
"lie#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/mɛnˈdæsəti/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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]
},
{
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"tags": [
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]
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lǎžlivost",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лъжливост"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "uhæderlighed"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "løgnagtighed"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"word": "leugenachtigheid"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"word": "oneerlijkheid"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"word": "valheellisuus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"word": "epärehellisyys"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verlogenheit"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mendacità"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uærlighet"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mendacidade"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsidade"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lžívostʹ",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лжи́вость"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mendacidad"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty",
"word": "yalancılık"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lǎža",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лъжа"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "leugen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "bedrog"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "valhe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "petos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "vilppi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "Unwahrheit"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bugia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "menzogna"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsità"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mendacità"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "falskhet"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mendacidade"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsidade"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"word": "falsitate"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ložʹ",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ложь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "falʹšʹ",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фальшь"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a deceit, falsehood, or lie",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mentira"
}
],
"word": "mendacity"
}
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