Sentence examples for in this mendacious from inspiring English sources

We may have come to feel, in this mendacious age, that honesty can be the worst policy, and that if we're getting away with our lies, then those we're deceiving would not believe the truth anyway.

This mendacious use of language should have no place in social care and social work and we should not collude with it.

This mendacious and possibly lethal misinformation was passed to the 3,200 passengers, who carried on eating and drinking when they should have been heading to lifeboats.

Racism and barbed vernacular — sentences flit like venomous sparrows — salt this mendacious stew.

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".

But my play I Killed Rasputin, while not leaving comedy behind entirely, is a more serious attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened in this confused and mendacious story.

We have heard something similar before, in "Liar Liar" (1997), which presented Jim Carrey as a lonely blurter in a mendacious world.

At worst, the investigation, which Mr Mitchell cooperated with, suggests senior police, unwittingly or otherwise, colluded in a mendacious plot to cost a senior cabinet minister his job.Mr Mitchell had been accused by officers on duty at 10 Downing Street of calling them "fucking plebs", among other abusive terms, after they prevented him from riding a bicycle through the street's main gate.

But "gaffe" only covers the spoken word; and who's to say what constitutes a gaffe, in our mendacious age?

The C.D.C. produced, in 2004, a mendacious paper concluding that water-lead levels in the city were lower and less concerning than had been reported, and that no children with dangerously high blood-lead levels had been found.

The new government in 2010 made mendacious comparisons between Britain and Greece.