Sentence examples for mendacious character from inspiring English sources
Larry Linville, whose comically mendacious character Maj.
(The "mendacious" part was rich, given that the Mail had admitted that the story was untrue and paid Grant damages).
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's one of the most mendacious tropes in Hollywood: the female character who throws new light onto a male character's life through her Birkenstocked free spiritedness, while having absolutely no interests or agency of her own.
Brett Easton Ellis' screenplay offers us three main characters all as mendacious and narcissistic as one another.
Along the way, witnesses and the chief suspects in her murder also evolve from familiar stock types — plucked from the tabloids, television soaps and Evelyn Waugh novels — into more fully formed characters, by turns tetchy, willful, manipulative, mercenary and mendacious.
It said, in part, "Mr. Grant's allegations are mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media".
A mendacious tatterdemalion.
The character found an echo in the witty, if talkative, The Honey Pot (1967), where he was cast as Rex Harrison's mendacious secretary.
Most doctors are not mendacious orna?
