[responsivevoice]Mendacious[/responsivevoice] [ en-er-veyt]
The word of the day is ‘mendacious’.
The word is an adjective i.e. it adds more information about the noun/sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Dishonest
2. Not telling the truth
3.Lying
1. The mendacious fiction was framed by the chief priests and elders of the people.
2. With this mendacious explanation, Gustavus was forced to be content.
3. These words, audacious as mendacious, caused a tremendous uproar.
4. I uncovered Jacob’s mendacious propaganda.
5. Sheila isn’t mendacious; these allegations against her are unjust.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, hypocritical, fraudulent, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, two-timing, duplicitous, perjured, perfidious, untrue, fictitious, falsified, fabricated, fallacious, invented, made up, hollow, erroneous, spurious, equivocating, paltering, fibbing, etc.
Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
frank, honest, sincere, truthful, etc.
Quotation:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
Social Example:
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