mendacity

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.

For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump’s chicanery, casual mendacity, outrageous divisiveness and outright criminal behavior.

We tend to think of Hitler's speeches, as presented and preserved in newsreels and documentaries, as spit-splattering rants, brimming with hatred and mendacity.

He may invite passionate opposition from his foes, but his fans simply shrug at his misstatements, malapropisms and mendacity.