Sentence examples for to mendacity from inspiring English sources

So ministers resort to mendacity.

The Gwent chief confessed to a "perverse incentive" to mendacity.

The old ones' weapons of choice were muskets and bayonets; the new ones confine themselves to mendacity, demagoguery, and obstructionism.

Then there's Fischer's sense of literary style, his cutesy, lazy habit of enlivening his prose by the use or archly deliberate misuse of needlessly fancy locutions: "bailed out of the womb," "a tough [predicament] to mendacity out".

"It is important not to attribute mendacity to Burchfield," she said, "but rather to give the early editors recognition for their contribution toward making the OED a truly global text.

IGNATIEFF: This is a discussion about what has happened to us — all of us — since 9/11, and I am putting the issue of oversight into the frame, because we have all learned a great deal about our obligations to keep ourselves honest, to refuse to condone mendacity, as you put it.

So much for the usual line which oozes daily out of this monument to human mendacity about the need to eliminate government mollycoddling at the expense of the hard-pressed middle-class taxpayer, and the need to get people to stand on their own two feet.

This is yet one more reason for those of us opposed to the mendacity of the current administration to continue our drumbeat of criticism until reason returns to the White House.

But "negative" hardly does justice to the mendacity of the campaign of vilification that bracketed Nashville.

Greg Dyke is a bold, imaginative choice as chairman, yet has already succumbed to bureaucratic mendacity and mediocrity during his spell as the BBC's director-general.

Second, the failures of government may not all be down to politicians' mendacity, but the sheer difficulty any government faces in turning policy into reality.