Example sentences for: mendacity

How can you use “mendacity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As George Will put it last week, the contempt of court citation against Clinton for falsely denying his affair with Monica Lewinsky is "a timely reminder of the mendacity that drenches his presidency, including his Balkan policy."

  • Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths."

  • Citing the long record of the president's "boldness and mendacity"--not just the Lewinsky case but the Travel Office and FBI file coverups, etc.--Helprin compares the fibbing Clinton to the model of the self-sacrificing statesman: "As others move in the light, he will move in the darkness, so that as others move in darkness, he may move in the light.

  • In Britain, the Independent on Sunday , which called Clinton "a shallow, fawning mountebank, and a man whose serial adultery might be overlooked more easily but for his serial mendacity," was just as hard on his Republican foes.

  • That wouldn't do much to prove or disprove Broaddrick's rape accusation, but it's mildly interesting to think about in the context of what we know about Clinton's mendacity.


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