mendacious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)

1. (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.

   He was dismissed as a mendacious witness.

2. (of a statement, etc) False or untrue.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:untrue

   mendacious propaganda

   utterly mendacious

   The report was filled with mendacious claims.

Derived terms

• mendaciously
• mendaciousness
• unmendacious

Translations

lying, untruthful or dishonest

Afrikaans: leunagtig, oneerlik, liegend Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib) Armenian: ստախոս (hy) (staxos), սուտասան (hy) (sutasan) Bulgarian: лъжлив (bg) (lǎžliv) Chinese: Mandarin: 說謊的 / 说谎的 (zh) (shuōhuǎng de) Czech: prolhaný (cs) Dutch: leugenachtig (nl), oneerlijk (nl), liegend (nl) Finnish: valheellinen (fi) French: fallacieux (fr), mensonger (fr), trompeur (fr) m Georgian: ცრუ (cru) German: lügnerisch (de), verlogen (de), unwahr (de) Greek: αναληθής (el) (analithís) Ancient: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos) Hebrew: שקרן, לא ישר Hungarian: hazug (hu), hazudozó (hu) Italian: mendace (it), menzognero (it) m, bugiardo (it) m Japanese: 虚偽の (ja) (きょぎの, kyogi no), 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: derewîn (ku) Latin: mendax (la) Portuguese: mentiroso (pt), mendaz (pt) Romanian: mincinos (ro) Russian: лжи́вый (ru) (lžívyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ла̀жљив Roman: làžljiv (sh) Spanish: mentiroso (es), embustero (es), mendaz (es), mendigo (es) m, mendiga (es) f Swedish: lögnaktig (sv), förljugen (sv) Ukrainian: брехли́вий (uk) (brexlývyj)

false — see false