Synonyms for mendacity
mɛnˈdæs ɪ timen·dac·i·ty

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1. mendacity

   Synonyms:
   deceit, deception, delusion, duplicity, error, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fiction, guile, imposture, lie, untruth

   Antonyms:
   candor, frankness, honesty, ingenuousness, reality, truth, truthfulness, veracity, verity

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1. mendacity

   Synonyms:
   falsehood, lying, untruthfulness, deception, prevarication, duplicity

   Antonyms:
   veracity, truthfulness, frankness, candor, ingenuousness

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1. mendacitynoun

   the tendency to be untruthful

   Antonyms:
   veracity

Matched Categories

1. • Untruthfulness

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1. mendacitynoun

   Synonyms:
   disposition to lie, habit of lying

2. mendacitynoun

   Synonyms:
   falsehood, deceit, duplicity, artifice, trickery

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1. mendacitynoun

   Synonyms:
   untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth

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1. List of paraphrases for "mendacity":

   concealment, begging

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mendacity

   Synonyms:
   Pathologic lying, see there
   

2. mendacity

   Synonyms:
   Pathologic lying
   

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   This is the president’s mendacity continuing to a degree that is really quite remarkable.

2. George Conway:

   It's so maddening to watch, the mendacity, the incompetence, it's just maddening to watch. The tweeting is just the way to get it out of the way, so I can get it off my chest and move on with my life that day. That's basically it. Frankly, it's so I don't end up screaming at her about it.

3. Chris Cuomo:

   If fact [checking] is anything, we've never had anybody with the level of mendacity that he has. Not even close, it's in the eye of the beholder.

4. Bertrand Russell:

   One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.