mendacity

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noun

Plural noun:

mendacities

1.
(uncountable)The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
Big Daddy: […] Think of all the lies I got to put up with!—Pretenses! Ain't that mendacity? Having to pretend stuff you don't think or feel or have any idea of?
2.
(countable)A deceit, falsehood, or lie.

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mendacious mendaciously mendaciousness

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ine-pro From mendacitas, from la mendāx + -itās. Mendāx is derived from mentior (to deceive, lie) (from mēns, mentis (mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (thought)) + -āx, or from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (to fault)..