What is another word for mendacity?
Pronunciation:
[ mɛndˈasɪti], [ mɛndˈasɪti], [ m_ɛ_n_d_ˈa_s_ɪ_t_i]
Related words: liar, dishonest, untruthful, falsehood, speaking falsely, lies, deception, fabrications, lie detector
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Similar words for mendacity:
- attribute (noun)
- deception (noun)
- dishonesty (noun)
- double-dealing (noun)
- falsehood (noun)
- falsity (noun)
- fib (noun)
- indirection (noun)
- insincerity (noun)
- inveracity (noun)
- lie (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- underhandedness (noun)
- untruthfulness (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- counterfeit
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Mendacity:
n.
• attribute (noun) • deception (noun)- cozenage,
- hokum,
- fraudulence,
- boondoggle,
- cunnings,
- boondoggles,
- hypocrisy,
- dupery,
- disinformation,
- dissimulation,
- beguilement,
- beguilements,
- Defraudation,
- fast one,
- deceptiveness.
- criminality,
- unscrupulousness,
- Hanky Panky,
- fourberie,
- Hocuspocus,
- chicane,
- insidiousness,
- wiliness,
- perfidy,
- chicanes,
- infidelity,
- sharp practice,
- criminalities,
- Improbity,
- indirection,
- infamy.
- fallaciousness,
- Untruism,
- misstatement,
- fakery,
- half truth,
- half truths,
- cover up,
- figment,
- fibbery,
- feigning,
- fable,
- mis-statement,
- coverup,
- hogwash,
- falseness.
- un-faithfulness,
- in accuracy,
- un-reality,
- mis representation,
- un-candidnesses,
- un faithfulnesses,
- mis representations,
- un-candidness,
- un realities,
- in-accuracy,
- mis-representations,
- un candidnesses,
- un faithfulness,
- dis ingenuousness,
- dis ingenuousnesses,
- un-realities,
- mis-representation,
- un candidness,
- in-accuracies,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- in accuracies,
- uncandidnesses,
- un-faithfulnesses,
- un reality.
- deceit,
- prevarication,
- lying,
- untruth,
- fraud.
- de-tractions,
- hyper-bole,
- de tractions,
- de-traction,
- tall stories,
- hyper bole,
- de traction,
- hyper-boles,
- hyper boles.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- perjury.
- dishonorable,
- charlatanism,
- caviling,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- lies,
- Blague,
- hollow,
- casuistry,
- organise,
- bearing false witness,
- dodging,
- devise,
- fiction,
- artificial,
- elevate,
- legal fiction,
- quibbling,
- Pharisaism,
- disingenuous,
- imaginary,
- hypocritical,
- unreal,
- yarn,
- farrago,
- fish story,
- true,
- erroneous,
- forswearing,
- misinformation,
- little white lie,
- impede,
- Flam,
- phony,
- shove,
- half-truth,
- supernatural,
- occlude,
- fallacy,
- overdress,
- sidestepping,
- compress,
- hedging,
- insincere,
- farfetched story,
- untrueness,
- insincerity,
- Charlatanry,
- empty,
- treacherousness,
- treacherous,
- forgery,
- equivocation,
- faithless,
- Subreption,
- fulfill,
- obstruct,
- ostentatious,
- tall tale,
- two-facedness,
- flimflam,
- betrayal,
- fulfil,
- Pseudology,
- feigned,
- deceitful,
- cock-and-bull story,
- Boggling,
- deceitfulness,
- debone,
- fairy tale,
- guile,
- Phariseeism,
- faulty,
- speciousness,
- whopper,
- Covin,
- invention,
- take,
- fill,
- pretentious,
- taradiddle,
- tartuffery,
- mendacious,
- organize,
- white lie,
- quackery,
- delusion,
- illegitimate,
- tale,
- unfaithful,
- untrue,
- fibbing,
- mendaciousness,
- unfairness,
- ghost story,
- corruption,
- pompous,
- false swearing,
- story,
- chicanery,
- twister,
- bogus,
- credibility gap,
- fraudulent,
- spurious,
- dishonest,
- exaggeration,
- arise,
- deceptive,
- cram,
- meet,
- tarradiddle,
- specious,
- mythomania,
- fictitious,
- imitation,
- duplicity,
- false,
- spuriousness,
- unnatural,
- shifting,
- occupy,
- fabrication,
- disingenuousness,
- carry,
- beat.
How to use "Mendacity" in context?
Mendacity is the habit of saying or doing something to concealed or alter the truth. It may refer to purposefully lying for strategic reasons, or to failing to correct a mistake even when it is known. The word comes from the Medieval Latin mendacium, meaning "a falsehood," from mendax ("unguarded") and capere ("to take").
Paraphrases for Mendacity:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
withholding.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
concealment, deceit, deception, falsehood, cover-up.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Mendacity:
- matchweed, midst, medicate, mindset, medicaid, methodist, mot test, medusa's head, mahdist, modest, mitigated, Manduca Sexta, matchet, mad-dog weed, Mot Juste, mitigate, Mideast, mind-set, midwest, Mount Shasta, matched, Mendicity, midget, matchwood, mutsuhito, mudcat, modesty, mid-august, monotheist, modiste, medusoid, manducate.
Hyponym for Mendacity:
n.
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attribute
untruthfulness.
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attribute
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