Mendacious \Men*da"cious\, a. [L. mendax, -acis, lying, cf.
mentiri to lie.]
1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious
person.
[1913 Webster]
2. False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious
statement.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mendacious
adj 1: given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child"
[syn: lying(a)]
2: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "mendacious":
deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous,
fallacious, false, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering,
perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless,
untruthful, unveracious, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
lying(a)
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