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mendacity noun deception, dishonesty, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, inaccuracy, legal fiction, lie, lying, mendaciousness, misrepresentation, misstatement, not credible, overstatement, partial truth, prevarication, sketch, tale, untruth, untruthfulness See also: artifice, bad faith, deceit, deception, dishonesty, false pretense, falsification, fraud, improbity, indirection, lie, misstatement, pretense, pretext, subreption 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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| Psychiatrists and those who believe their mendacities claim that mental illnesses are brain diseases, on a par with neurological diseases, such as Parkinsonism and stroke. We are now in a season for mourning an unthinkable violation, a season for being reminded that ours is, for all its assorted defects, mendacities, hypocrisies and isms, a pretty good country, overall. George Steiner writes that Jews are, "by definition, conscientious objector[s]: to the vulgar mystique of the flag and the anthem, to the sleep of reason which proclaims `my country, right or wrong,' to the pathos and eloquence of collective mendacities on which the nation-state--be it mass-consumer mercantile technocracy or a totalitarian oligarchy--builds it power and aggression" (21). |
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