mendacity

3 definitions found

mendacity - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mendacity \Men*dac"i*ty\, n.; pl. Mendacities. [L.
     mendacitas.]
     1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
        lying. --Macaulay.
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     2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne.
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     Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.
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mendacity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mendacity
      n 1: the tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity]

mendacity - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "mendacity":
     blague, boggling, caviling, cock-and-bull story, credibility gap,
     dishonesty, dodging, equivocation, exaggeration, fairy tale,
     falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fibbery,
     fibbing, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story,
     half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, lying,
     mendaciousness, mythomania, pious fiction, prevarication,
     pseudology, quibbling, shifting, sidestepping, slight stretching,
     story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story,
     truthlessness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white lie,
     yarn