Definition of "mendacity" []

• The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness. (noun)
• A lie; a falsehood. (noun)

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• "While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$."
• "Vic, your mendacity is so very earnest, it is amusing."
• "In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents."