mendacity
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A few chapters occupy his immediate point of view, but the novel never tries to explain his mendacity and lack of feeling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
At once menacing and clownish, Martin consistently tripped over his own incompetence, mendacity, and ignorance, ultimately dooming his chances of confirmation.
From Slate • May 10, 2025
McAfee wrote that “an odor of mendacity remains.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Probably the most notorious and enduring is his assertion that “an odor of mendacity remains” around the testimony of Willis and Wade, specifically as to the timing of their relationship.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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