mendacious

/mɛndˈe‍ɪʃəs/

/mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/

[adjective]

mendacious

[ADJECTIVE]

referring to something that is false or someone that has lied

intentionally untrue

Examples

1. And they don't lie because they're mendacious people or bad people.

2. This is what comes about when a speaker moves us skillfully with a mendacious discourse, a discourse that does not correspond to actual world reality.

3. Or do you find them equally corrupt, trivial, and mendacious and dishonest?

4. We are invoking Lincoln to justify the acts of that mendacious, self-indulgent, ignorant man.