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mendacious adjective artful, clever in deception, collusive, concocted, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, devoid of truth, dishonest, distorted, embroidered, fabricated, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fraudulent, given to lying, incorrect, insincere, invented, lacking truth, lying, made up, make-believe, mendax, misrepresentative, misstated, not straightforward, perfidious, perjured, perverted, pretended, prevaricating, sham, sly, spurious, truthless, uncandid, ungenuine, untrue, untruthful, unveridical, varnished, void of truth, wrong See also: deceptive, disingenuous, false, fictitious, inaccurate, lying, untrue How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Just as the unsupervised armed mercenaries being killed in Iraq are being described by the occupation authorities as "contractors" or, more mendaciously, "civilians"--so the responsibility for the porno interrogations at Abu Ghraib is being allowed to slide into the summer mists over the Tigris River. [164] Guicciardini's accounts of the Milanese and Roman campaigns follow an identical pattern: in the face of certain victory over inferior forces, Della Rovere, motivated by dread of combat, repeatedly rejects the lieutenant-general's sensible appeals for an attack, mendaciously claims that he is obeying Venetian directives, and runs from the enemy. I say "even if it would" because the Zeitgeist, on the one hand, is as loud, frenzied, and "in your face" as its so-called music, and, on the other hand, is as mendaciously timid and guarded as its "politically correct" language. |
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