Sentence examples for a mendacity from inspiring English sources

I won't use the word "hype," which connotes a mendacity that was in no way present here.

"There is a mendacity about Washington – they want to take a show vote, but they don't actually want to follow through on what they say".

But the pretence that Soviet repression reached anything like the scale or depths of Nazi savagery – or that the postwar "enslavement" of eastern Europe can be equated with wartime Nazi genocide – is a mendacity that tips towards Holocaust denial.

The Republicans, after all, have a mendacity for all seasons.

One of the most mendacious of Williams's characters -- and the playwright, who died gagging on the truth of a plastic bottle cap in 1983, was a mendacity expert -- this lyrical-with-heavy-ballast Blanche relies on lying as the most potent weapon she has to make people with whom she consorts submit to her whims even as she's in heavy denial about the dire straits into which she's descended.

It is intolerable to think that figures of authority — Lee's lawyer, her publisher, and all those who stand to gain from a sequel to the phenomenally lucrative "Mockingbird" — might be manipulating and exploiting the creator of a work of art that itself is about how an official mendacity abets a system of inequality.

Hitler was known, among colleagues, for a "bottomless mendacity" that would later be magnified by a slick propaganda machine that used the latest technology (radio, gramophone records, film) to spread his message.

Was it a willful mendacity borne out of prejudice, or something else?

A "fluent mendacity" came more naturally to her than any capacity to apologize.

It derives from a systematic mendacity, which got its start under Bush in regard to the Iraq War, but I'm afraid has not come to an end.

My fear is that both sides are engaged in an excess of wishful thinking, with a dash of mendacity.