English to Icelandic Meaning of mendacity - mendacity

Mendacity :

mendacity

noun

lygi, útleigu, tilbúningur, kúgast, ósannindi

Mendacity :: mendacity

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Definitions of mendacity in English

Noun(1) the tendency to be untruthful

Examples of mendacity in English

(1) It's a long turgid document of breathtaking mendacity .(2) This is a statement shot through with mendacity .(3) As the city gasps for fiscal air, it's only fair to be clear that the city's budget difficulties are a result of provincial mendacity and not local mismanagement.(4) It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.(5) His history of mendacity is so intense and so long lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.(6) Deceit, avarice and mendacity seem to be the main qualities displayed by successive governments and that leads to unsafe times for us little folks.(7) He cleans it up for TV or interviews, but his show is is truly a sickening display of raging mendacity .(8) There are examples of his mendacity - or his faculty for memory-loss and myth-making - that will affect people's lives.(9) When will they be held accountable for their mendacity ?(10) What's more, the obvious mendacity of the statement renders the argument faulty and therefore a clear case of sophistry.(11) Hopefully, he will never know that there had been two delivery charges paid (for there were two deliveries, after all) plus a tenner to the driver for his mendacity .(12) We demand that the media present the facts in an even-handed manner, investigate indications of corruption and mendacity , and spare us the trivia.(13) Face it, he is almost pathological in either his mendacity or in his self-deception.(14) Companies which allocate blank cheques to management teams with a proven record of failure and mendacity , get what they deserve.(15) I have never understood this: I understand the ethical concerns surrounding infidelity, since mendacity is involved.(16) His speculations in this regard, while intriguing, are teased from the silent ether and rely heavily on the fact of her general mendacity .

(1) on the mend ::

að batna

(2) mend fences ::

mend girðingar

Synonyms

1. wrong ::

rangt

2. FALSE ::

RANGT

3. untruth ::

ósannindi

4. mendacity ::

mendacity

5. assumed ::

ráð

6. colourable ::

colourable

7. falsehood ::

lygi

8. leasing ::

útleigu

9. lie ::

lygi

10. fabrication ::

tilbúningur

11. gag ::

kúgast

Antonyms

1. truth ::

sannleikurinn

Different Forms

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