Sentence examples for mendacious use from inspiring English sources

This mendacious use of language should have no place in social care and social work and we should not collude with it.

I doubt Ms. Lemon is mendacious in her use of statistics.

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

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

They add, using the mendacious gerund beloved of such projects, "creating neighbourhoods for the future".

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He said that because Trump was operating so "far outside" the political campaigns to which the company's guidelines usually applied, and because he was saying things so obviously false, or overtly anti-Muslim, it was quite factual for reporters to call him, for example, a "mendacious racist" even though they wouldn't normally use those kinds of terms about a candidate.

But the Brexit camp's use of the Turkish issue has been mendacious.

But when reporters give the same protection to major government figures, who are merely using the press to spin the government's mendacious agenda, they undermine the public's willingness to give the benefit of the doubt to reporters who claim First Amendment rights to protect their sources.

Brett Easton Ellis' screenplay offers us three main characters all as mendacious and narcissistic as one another.

Patrick Marber preserves this ambiguous, mendacious flavour, if not the structural effect of delayed revelation, by using a lot of voiceover, especially at the beginning, when we need to be introduced to Barbara's haughty, plaintive personality.