How to Use mendacity in a Sentence

mendacity

noun

• And round and round goes the CLC mendacity merry-go-round.
  — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021
• As Thomas Crown might say, regret is a waste of time, as is mendacity.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2020
• His laughable mendacity on the size of the inaugural crowd set the standard for all the lies that have followed.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
• What is new is the degree to which voters are prepared to back leaders who seem to revel in their mendacity.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• In all seriousness, this kind of mendacity tends to catch up to a person.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Barr’s mendacity during the Blitzer interview made a lot of news.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• But as the past few weeks have shown, the mendacity that once seemed like a feature of politics in the age of Trump has outlived the former president's Twitter feed.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
• What was once seen, on screens and in many the mind’s eye, as the brazen self-branding and narcissism of a reality TV star looks more like simple mendacity.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• The most devastating mendacity — the one that snuffs out the light in us — is the belief that happiness is impossible with us in the picture.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• The moral of this story is not just the mendacity both campaigns have shown in attack ads on fellow-Republicans.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 2 May 2018
• Johnson’s response displayed all his faults—the bravado and bluster, the shiftiness and mendacity.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
• The Gramscian, Alinskyite mendacity of his actions in this regard should be a scandal to any sane conscience.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• Through QAnon, the mendacity that has defined the Trump era will remain an enduring feature of right-wing politics, long after Trump slinks away.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
• Claire is taken aback—as much by Jamie's easy mendacity as by his willingness to betray his family.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2017
• Thus, the mendacity of the Democrats produces an equal and opposite reaction from the Republicans.
  — Mike Gallagher, National Review, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Atlantic is proud to publish such hate-inducing mendacity.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019
• What a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity, as Big Daddy said.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• The rise of such a flagrant mendacity is usually located very recently, in Donald Trump’s first election run or in the dawning of the social media age.
  — Jason Stanley, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2021
• There are no events for mendacity, oppression, or rudeness.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• But this favored Democratic talking point, whether articulated from a White House podium, or daubed in blood-red ink on a fancy dress, is bathed in mendacity.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• For all of its tightness and focus, his singing accounts for his perfectionism, his optimism and his grace, as well as his paranoia, his mendacity and his viciousness.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Politics isn’t a particularly honest business, but still, the mendacity about the border crisis is off the charts.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• This has been obscured by a greater embrace of brinksmanship on the right, from willingness a decade ago to shut down the government and risk default on the debt to Trump's thoroughly reckless mendacity surrounding the 2020 election.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 7 July 2021
• Finally, many of our leaders have lost credibility through galling acts of hypocrisy and mendacity.
  — John Loftus, National Review, 1 Dec. 2020
• With the variety in her game, the cleanliness of her forehand strike and the skidding mendacity of her backhand slice, Barty was a tennis player’s tennis player who had clearly established herself over the last year as the best in the world.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
• Chomsky’s mendacity does not, in Harris’s opinion, stem from wickedness.
  — Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• His creepy persona reflects the winking mendacity and distracting stunts that typify his real-life rule.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• The mendacity of breweries and their willingness to take advantage of young children and their families no doubt contributed to the dramatic and theatrical flair of Leslie’s reports.
  — Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
• Given the Watergate backdrop as well as the mendacity that accompanied the Vietnam War, there was a turn against the government by the public, and also the representatives in Congress.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 2 Feb. 2018
• From its inception, back in 2012, Mann’s relentless litigation has been marked out by an unlovely mixture of mendacity and egomania.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024