How to Use mendacious in a Sentence

mendacious

adjective

• The newspaper story was mendacious and hurtful.
• Goff doesn’t seem to take a ruthless or mendacious approach to the game.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2020
• Among the Afghan venders, the worst of the tamale wars took place in Seattle, where the trade was dominated by a Khan with a mafioso reputation: mean, mendacious, scary as hell.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2016
• And yet — here is Citizen Ned, self-invented, mendacious, enabled by his supporters, the rich and the not-so-rich alike.
  — Laura Lippman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
• So why not just ignore this latest outburst from the mendacious Muscovite?
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• Over the years, Cruz has been called mendacious, ruthless and shamelessly self-promoting.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• Moderates helped kill reform with mendacious claims that the legislation would hurt the poor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• That was bad, but his mendacious campaign against Proposition 30 is of far more consequence.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• One of the pillars of the Soviet Union was a controlled press in which all coverage was organized to confirm a mendacious ideology.
  — David Satter, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• There is great value in persuading light-skinned people that race is a mendacious fiction, while white privilege is an indisputable fact.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Apr. 2018
• But those rifts are nothing compared to the enmity between the media and Trump, who has repeatedly trashed journalists as some of most dishonest and mendacious people in the country.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• The challenge is reaching them before mendacious narratives do.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• Even under a president as mendacious as Nixon, the political universe was still bounded by a shared sense of reality.
  — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• The result is a mendacious muddle, in which only one conclusion can be drawn: The elites are hiding something—likely something very sinister—from everyone else.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• Joe Biden’s assessment of his first 100 days in office is exaggerated if not outright mendacious.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
• Plus, everybody likes laughing at Ted Cruz, the mendacious eel who has finally departed the presidential race.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 May 2016
• But it could be argued that consumers are dealing with many of the same issues, from devious advertising to mendacious propaganda.
  — Michael J. Socolow, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
• Letters written while events were unfolding appear side by side with memoirs, some thoughtful and others mendacious, written decades later.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• The C.D.C. produced, in 2004, a mendacious paper concluding that water-lead levels in the city were lower and less concerning than had been reported, and that no children with dangerously high blood-lead levels had been found.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2016
• War is worshipped and justified by the state’s mendacious propaganda machine.
  — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022
• Close to 90 percent of Republicans believe the most patently mendacious president in history over the flawed, but still generally earnest, CNN.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 7 July 2017
• Okay, hardly anyone, living or dead, objects any more to the rote recitation of what is actually quite mendacious historical twaddle.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Mar. 2012
• Mildred had become great friends with her and had given her an elaborate but mendacious account of the circumstances which had brought her to the pass she was in.
  — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915
• Dogged and ingenious interrogation of a mendacious suspect finally gets at the truth.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• And either scenario will bring out both the absolute best and worst in human nature: Hero first responders, innovators and leaders as well as mendacious grifters, conspiracy theorists and tyrants.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 25 Apr. 2020
• Birx was accused of enabling an incompetent and mendacious President.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• All this relies on the invention of mendacious attributes, conferring on millions of diverse people implausible character flaws or virtues.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• The Balfour Declaration plays a crucial role in their mendacious narrative depicting Zionism as a form of imperialism.
  — Daniel Johnson, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2016
• When Hanif’s English-language reporting has exposed corrupt or mendacious leaders, the official reaction has often been benign.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 9 May 2016
• Today, the challenges of wrestling with globalization, European integration, climate change, and migration favor mediocre and mendacious managers who inspire no one.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024