mendacity

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

McAfee wrote that “an odor of mendacity remains.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

This theme of mendacity and impenitence ran throughout Engoron’s ruling.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2024

In all seriousness, this kind of mendacity tends to catch up to a person.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

We know merely what disasters his mendacity occasioned.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

Wedgwood wrote about the moral and ethical deficiencies and mendacities of the figures involved in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020

Reading from a carefully worded script, McMaster strung together a series of mendacities and half-truths that appalled his friends and admirers.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018

This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The immense seriousness, not to say solicitude, with which these inquiries were addressed to me eventually led me into the most enterprising mendacities.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan