ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsMmendacious
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mendacious
Meaning: lying or habitually dishonest
mendacious in a sentence
How mendacious is used in real sentences:
The mendacious witness changed his story three times.
The report exposed the mendacious claims in the brochure.
“Worse, its mendacious reports described vanished eelgrass beds as healthy.”
— from the passage The Altered Shore
“Rusk called the archival record mendacious, though Mara noticed the hypocrisy of his appeal to tradition; he had bulldozed her family's stone walls only last spring.”
— from the passage The Marker on the Slope
Synonyms for mendacious
Other words for mendacious — dishonest, deceitful and untruthful — carry the same meaning.
- dishonest
- deceitful
- untruthful
Antonyms of mendacious
Words that mean the opposite of mendacious:
Where it comes from
From Latin mendax, meaning 'lying.'
Memory hook
MENDACIOUS sounds like 'menace-us': lies can menace us.
Practice mendacious in the app