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mendacious
What does mendacious mean?
mendacious (adjective): (of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use mendacious in a sentence?
- He was dismissed as a mendacious witness. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce mendacious?
/mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does mendacious come from?
Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”), + -ious.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to mendacious
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “mendacious” mean?
providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink
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artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily
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(of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest
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so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
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