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单词 mendacity
释义

mendacity

/mɛnˈdasəti /
noun [mass noun]
Untruthfulness: people publicly castigated for past mendacity...
  • Deceit, avarice and mendacity seem to be the main qualities displayed by successive governments and that leads to unsafe times for us little folks.
  • Three hours is an awful long time in the cinema just to have that condescending truism lowered on us - in any case distorted and exaggerated to the point of mendacity.
  • This is a statement shot through with mendacity.

Synonyms

lying, untruthfulness, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, dissembling, insincerity, disingenuousness, hypocrisy, fraud, fraudulence, double-dealing, two-timing, duplicity, perjury, perfidy;
untruth, fictitiousness, falsity, falsehood, falseness, fallaciousness, hollowness
informal kidology
Irish informal codology
humorous economy with the truth, terminological inexactitude
rare unveracity

Origin

Mid 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from mendax, mendac- 'lying' (see mendacious).

Rhymes

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