mendacity
Example Sentences
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The prospect of indictment is a dramatic reminder, if one was needed, of the former president’s essential mendacity and moral bankruptcy.
From Los Angeles Times
Karsnitz suggested Wood’s participation in lawsuits in Georgia and Wisconsin challenging the 2020 election results demonstrated “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication and surprising incompetence.”
From Seattle Times
A majority of Conservative MPs voted to make him prime minister after “thirty years of celebrity made him famous for his mendacity, indifference to detail, poor administration, and inveterate betrayal of every personal commitment.”
From Washington Post
He’s not a neutral conduit of “differing opinions,” but a vector of known duplicity and mendacity.
From Los Angeles Times
It is an undeniable triumph of interminable propaganda streaming on specific sectors of TV, radio and anti-social media — an amalgam constituting a noxious nexus of alluring mendacity.
From Seattle Times
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