Friday word: Mendacious
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1word1dayA Latin word this week :)
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MENDACIOUS : given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
Examples:
The newspaper story was mendacious and hurtful.
Indeed, the racist and Malthusian elements in Darwin's work are subjects on which the new secularists are either silent, delicate, or mendacious. —Eugene McCarraher, Commonweal, 15 June 2007
Etymology:
Latin mendac-, mendax, lying
First Known Use: 1616
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MENDACIOUS : given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
Examples:
The newspaper story was mendacious and hurtful.
Indeed, the racist and Malthusian elements in Darwin's work are subjects on which the new secularists are either silent, delicate, or mendacious. —Eugene McCarraher, Commonweal, 15 June 2007
Etymology:
Latin mendac-, mendax, lying
First Known Use: 1616
