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.

A French military man of noble breeding, he is as formidable a fencer as he is a wordsmith — and he combines these skills with Olympian flair when lashing out at the mendacity and mediocrity that society enshrines.

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.