mendacity

To the extent that calculated mendacity delivered through the media can swing elections, the implications are grave for democratic theory.

Those carnal delights hardly seem worth it given the violence and mendacity Stanley has shown himself capable of.

As historian Randall Balmer explained at Religion News Service, the sleight of hand regarding the timeline was only the beginning of the mendacity religious right leaders brought to their campaign against Carter.

But it’s the delusion and mendacity on display at Giuliani’s press conference that have more powerfully shaped American political culture.

A case of massive oppositional mendacity that borders on the hilarious — except that many people believed and continue to believe him, all evidence to the contrary.