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mendacity
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mendacity
(noun)
mendacity
/mɛn
ˈ
dæsəti/
noun
mendacity
/mɛn
ˈ
dæsəti/
noun
Britannica Dictionary definition of MENDACITY
[
noncount
]
formal
:
lack of honesty
:
the condition of being mendacious
The people learned of their government's
mendacity
[=learned that their government had told lies] only after the war had ended.
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