Mendacious Definition
mĕn-dāshəs
adjective
Not truthful; lying or false.
Webster's New World
False; untrue.
A mendacious statement.
American Heritage
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Wiktionary
Origin of Mendacious
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From Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth"), from mendāx (“lying").
From Wiktionary
From Latin mendācium lie from mendāx mendāc- mendacious
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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