Sentence examples for mendacious about from inspiring English sources

Yet with benefit of hindsight, there is something absurdly mendacious about this story.

This is the second presidential election in which Republicans have seized on the attack in which four Americans died, and for the same reason they fixated on it in 2012: It provides an opportunity to paint Democrats as mendacious about whether the attack was an act of terrorism or a product of outrage in the Muslim world over a YouTube video defaming the prophet Muhammad.

Using mendacious allegations about Neo-Jacobin plots as a cover, the revisionists prepared a parliamentary coup to jettison the constitution.

Could I correct a couple of points in Polly Toynbee's extraordinarily mendacious article about the Daily Mail (Bully-in-chief Dacre is off. Good riddance, 8 June).

The rightwing mass media and populist politicians both in and outside mainstream political parties, and the fascist fringe are cruder with their mendacious ravings about "queue jumpers", "deliberate self-harm" and "threats to the Australian way of life".

The book would have had more tension if Elton had allowed the anti-legalisation arguments to be marshalled by someone more sympathetic than an unsatisfactory Tory Shadow Home Secretary and in the end his hero undoes himself by lying to a mendacious press about his affair rather than losing the argument on drugs.

In this telling, it was the timid, lazy press corps that failed to rigorously challenge the president's core (mendacious) claims about his tax cuts and rationale for heading to war.

Popular examples are the biblical conversation between Eve and the mendacious snake about a forbidden fruit tree in the center of paradise and in Grimm's fairy tales like "Cinderella," where the 2 pigeons scream "… there's blood in the shoe … the true bride waits for you …" or in "Little Red Riding Hood" with the malicious speaking wolf.

During his 2012 presidential campaign Romney has proven that his mendacious propaganda fools about 30% of republican voters all the time, and that's something to really most worry about in a democracy that depends on cultural values of honor, integrity, morals and ethics to work most successfully for all of We The People.

His publishers announce The Oyster House Siege as "Jay Rayner's pulsating break-out... a decisive move away from his earlier comic novels". This is strangely backhanded, since Rayner's last, The Apologist, was a very entertaining high-concept farce about mendacious food writing, self-serving posh guilt and the absurdity of celeb culture, its anti-hero a ghastly man in a grotesque world.

This is strangely backhanded, since Rayner's last, The Apologist, was a very entertaining high-concept farce about mendacious food writing, self-serving posh guilt and the absurdity of celeb culture, its anti-hero a ghastly man in a grotesque world.