Not manic bloggers and mendacious gossips, as it has become.
We applauded the extraordinary performances but I think we were also expressing a profound desire to celebrate the telling of a truth in these mendacious times - when torture has become "extraordinary rendition".
By the time of his political and mental death in 2006, Sharon – with the help of the 2001 crimes against humanity in the US and his successful but mendacious claim that Arafat backed bin Laden – had become, of all things, a peacemaker, while Arafat, who made more concessions to Israeli demands than any other Palestinian leader, was portrayed as a super-terrorist.
Indeed, Gustav proved to be a harsh master and an exigent lord; he became known for being suspicious, mendacious, cruel, vengeful, demagogic, and capricious; and, to his enemies, he seemed to have most of the attributes of a tyrant.
In 1939, partly by means of mendacious attacks on his opponent, he became the youngest circuit judge ever elected in Wisconsin.
But despite her medical education, Stein has chosen to go down the mendacious road of identity politics.
America, in turn, sees Iran as "devious, mendacious, fanatical".
America, in turn, sees Iran as "devious, mendacious, fanatical, violent and incomprehensible".
Voters who believed their mendacious campaign just might get cross when they find out.
