mendacious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   given to lying

   A mendacious child.

2. 2
   adj

   intentionally untrue

   A mendacious statement.

3. 3
   adj

   Lying, untruthful or dishonest.

   He was dismissed as a mendacious witness.

4. 4
   adj

   False or untrue.

   Mendacious propaganda.

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

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