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mendaciously

/men-dey-shuhs/US // mɛnˈdeɪ ʃəs //

善意地,善意的谎言,明目张胆地,善意的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
    • : false or untrue: a mendacious report.

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Examples

  • They created well-intentioned rules—which most mendacious lobbyists have found a way to ignore legally.

  • Ross Douthat wrote in The New York Times that the media coverage of the bill was “mendacious” and “hysterical.”

  • Why call his speech before the United Nations “defamatory and venomous… full of mendacious propaganda?”

  • Erdogan's description of Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians as "genocidal" is mendacious and inflammatory.

  • But too few Democrats—and almost no media commentators—have countered the mendacious right-wing storyline.

  • For the mendacious history confuses two entirely distinct persons—Eugenius and Eirenæus Philalethes.

  • True national dignity and glory lie in right doing, and humiliation comes only from public dishonour and a mendacious diplomacy.

  • Splendidly mendacious in these pages as he was in life, Barras posed always as the man on horseback of his "13 Vendmiaire."

  • The signification of the studies of antiquity hitherto pursued: obscure; mendacious.

  • "My watch was twenty minutes fast, and I had given him up," said Brimmer, with mendacious effrontery.