Last April, the centre-right Fidesz party gained more than two-thirds of seats, ousting a socialist government widely perceived as corrupt and mendacious.
The new government in 2010 made mendacious comparisons between Britain and Greece.
High-flying public talk, when carried out in a climate of censorship, cannot help but be mendacious.
The province was settled before the first world war by European farmers, lured to the area by free land and the mendacious promise of an "agreeable" climate (winters can feature temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius, and summers 40 degrees).
Crude and mendacious it may be, but the Sun senses the popular mood.
The anti-hero, Axel Vander, is a famous old literary critic, arrogant, lecherous and cruel, mendacious and a thief, possibly even a killer (Mr Banville's magic is that he makes one care about the monster).
THE Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual powwow in Singapore for Asia-Pacific defence chiefs, has begun to follow a pattern: America and its friends in Asia line up to criticise China for its alleged transgressions in the seas around its coast; China issues fierce, mendacious and unconvincing rebuttals; everybody goes home.
But the official claim that the country is a union of federal states was long mendacious.
And there have already been four Iraq inquiries, though none as comprehensive as this one.Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.
Whether lacerating the Yes side's wishful, or mendacious, predictions for an independent Scotland's economic prospects; or glorifying the benefits of scale and co-operation that lie in the current arrangement, often using Biblical rhetoric, Mr Brown gave a glimpse of a brilliance that was seldom evident during his time in 10 Downing Street.
After an inquiry into the Duggan killing ruled it lawful last month, he carefully condemned the mendacious handling of the case by the police, while offering no encouragement to the dead man's belligerent supporters.
