Sentence examples for kind of mendacious from inspiring English sources

Service With a Smile IN THE RHETORIC of customer service, there is a certain kind of mendacious politesse that is always the harbinger of maltreatment.

-SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL (Republican-Kentucky)., USAToday Service With a Smile IN THE RHETORIC of customer service, there is a certain kind of mendacious politesse that is always the harbinger of maltreatment.

But Sabbahi is not the only one guilty of mendacious political nostalgia.

"McCarthyism" could have a truly useful definition: the calculated and unprincipled use of mendacious allegations for political purposes.

What did worry him, he said, was a dangerous combination of mendacious patients and too-casual doctors.

His foreign policy is a dull and witless imitation of George Bush's, and he has imported the Republican strategy of mendacious name-calling in lieu of rational argument.

"The world watched a defamatory and venomous speech that was full of mendacious propaganda against the Israel Defense Forces and the citizens of Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel responded.

As the proud possessor of a history GCSE, I know the pre-internet past is littered with examples of mendacious, even psychopathic adults.

Despite the pride they take in their worldly absence of illusions, they are not above a degree of self-delusion or even of mendacious self-exoneration.

In 1939, partly by means of mendacious attacks on his opponent, he became the youngest circuit judge ever elected in Wisconsin.

In this vision, a job may provide a kind of grim life-boat camaraderie, along with a paycheck, but the work itself is meaningless unto mendacious: a metaphor for the lies and illusions that underlie our economy, if not our civilization.