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mendacity

/men-das-i-tee/US // mɛnˈdæs ɪ ti //UK // (mɛnˈdæsɪtɪ) //

伪装,伪善,虚伪,虚伪性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural men·dac·i·ties for 2.

    • : the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
    • : an instance of lying; falsehood.

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Examples

  • In the film, based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim Flam Man, Jennifer comes to believe her father’s mendacity is “wedded to his shame and disappointment.”

  • Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”

  • Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.

  • Rush soon moved out of apology mode in any event, casting himself as a victim of media mendacity.

  • The destruction of a for-profit enterprise is always noble; its defense always carries the whiff of mendacity.

  • His new book, The Mendacity of Hope, argues that Obama has betrayed liberalism and the Constitution.

  • A surprising person Henri, with his worn uniform and his capacity for kindly mendacity.

  • "Of course, I didn't really think she was my aunt," he said, with the easy mendacity of childhood.

  • With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death.

  • Nothing is more revolting, but nothing is more characteristic of the Queen, than her shameless mendacity.

  • "Religious mania; hysterical mendacity," a doctor diagnosed it, with a pompous frown.