"It is now evident that there are those in a section of the Fifa fraternity who are not only pathologically mendacious, but in the face of Fifa's stated position and its voluntary recognition of my contribution to world football and by definition to Fifa, will stop at no length to destroy my legacy and destabilise the Caribbean region whose interests I have always vigorously advocated.
From the Pied Piper to Neil Gaiman's Coraline, via the extravagantly mendacious Count Olaf in the Series of Unfortunate Events, children are never safe.
However difficult and unappetizing it might be to offer any concessions to the "brutal, meddlesome and mendacious" regime in Iran, it's the way to avoid two worse choices.
But those rifts are nothing compared to the enmity between the media and Trump, who has repeatedly trashed journalists as some of most dishonest and mendacious people in the country.
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.
Yet considering the enormity of what the Government has done – sacking an expert of world renown because he does not acquiesce to its political agenda, and then offering feeble and mendacious excuses in order to justify this – Dr Harris's stand is puny.
It's not after all about the suits and the twinsets and the booze and the smokes and the chairs, it's about people caring about the job they're doing, even if it's a mendacious one, in a way not much seen since.
While admitting his personal affection for the President, the President stated that the tone of the book would be scathing, generally accusing the President of being the most uneducated, unprepared, shallow, hypocritical, mendacious President in U.S. history, a discredit to the office, and an embarrassment to the nation.
