mendacious
11mendacious — men|da|cious [menˈdeıʃəs] adj formal [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: mendax] not truthful ▪ mendacious propaganda >mendaciously adv …
12mendacious — [mɛn deɪʃəs] adjective untruthful: mendacious propaganda. Derivatives mendaciously adverb mendacity noun Origin C17: from L. mendax, mendac lying + ious …
13mendacious — adjective formal not truthful: mendacious propaganda mendaciously adverb …
14mendacious — adjective politicians and their mendacious spin doctors Syn: lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, fraudulent, double dealing, two faced, two timing, duplicitous, perjured; untrue,… …
15mendacious — men•da•cious [[t]mɛnˈdeɪ ʃəs[/t]] adj. 1) telling lies, esp. habitually; dishonest 2) false or untrue: a mendacious report[/ex] • Etymology: 1610–20; < L mendāx; see acious men•da′cious•ly, adv. men•da′cious•ness, n …
16mendacious — /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs / (say men dayshuhs) adjective 1. false or untrue: a mendacious report. 2. lying or untruthful. {mendaci(ty) + ous} –mendaciously, adverb –mendaciousness, noun …
17mendacious — adjective a) lying, untruthful or dishonest b) false or untrue …
18mendacious — Synonyms and related words: deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless, untruthful, unveracious, wrong …
19mendacious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lying, untrue, spurious; see false 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. dishonest, lying, false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, fraudulent, untruthful, dissembling. ANT.: honest, truthful III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
20mendacious — men|da|cious [ men deıʃəs ] adjective VERY FORMAL not telling the truth a. used about deliberately false statements, information, etc. ╾ men|da|cious|ly adverb …
