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- pronunciation:
- men
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
untruthful.
We knew he was a mendacious person, so we didn't believe he was telling the truth.- synonyms:
- dishonest, duplicitous, lying, untruthful
- antonyms:
- truthful, veracious
- similar words:
- crooked, deceitful, disingenuous, fraudulent, guileful, insincere, two-faced, underhanded
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| definition 2: |
untrue.
a mendacious accusation- synonyms:
- false, untrue, untruthful
- antonyms:
- truthful, veracious
- similar words:
- erroneous, fabricated, fallacious, inaccurate, meretricious, misleading, sham, spurious, wrong
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| related words: |
deceitful, two-faced |
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| derivations: |
mendaciously (adv.), mendaciousness (n.) |
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