Sentence examples for mendacious story from inspiring English sources
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.
Yet with benefit of hindsight, there is something absurdly mendacious about this story.
Ordinary people have no real ability to undo the damage of a misleading and mendacious front-page story.
The more curious question may be not so much about the procedures, good will, and fate of 60 Minutes, but about what world media people live in that they continue to think that a mistake on 60 Minutes is an earth- (or at least industry-shattering) story – mendacious corporate intransigence or the creepy tentacles of ever-spreading conspiracy.
Where reviewers found The Sound of Music slow, sugary and mendacious, audiences discovered a heartwarming story about childhood, and a series of catchy, upbeat songs.
Respondents to a query posted on the culinary Web site eGullet.org were more than happy to regale me with stories of clueless, inept or mendacious wine service.
The Israeli government said the report was "hostile, mendacious and biased against Israel".
Mr Dacre again denied phone hacking had been the source of the 2007 story, saying that he would withdraw the "mendacious smears" comment only if Mr Grant withdrew his suggestion that Mail newspapers had been involved in phone hacking.
In February, Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers had denied hacking had been the source of the story and accused Mr Grant of making "mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media".
Yesterday the editor defended accusing Mr Grant of making "mendacious smears" after the actor claimed a Mail on Sunday story about his relationship with socialite Jemima Khan was likely to have come from illicit eavesdropping.
He launched a robust defence of his decision to describe Grant's evidence as "mendacious smears", declaring that the actor's claim that a story about him may have been sourced from phone hacking was damaging to his newspaper.
