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What does mendacity mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
  2. (countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
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His history of mendacity is so intense and so long lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.
He would need to show a willful mendacity, an intention to deceive by deliberate falsification.
If Ann is guilty of objective mendacity in print, I should very much like to see it pointed out.
It did not matter to this grand pooh-bah of the punditocracy that the ads were pure mendacity from start to finish.
He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism.
Face it, he is almost pathological in either his mendacity or in his self-deception.

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