Synonyms for mendacity
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Noun
prevarication, lie, untruth, lying, fib, story, untruthfulness, falsehood dated rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
Big Daddy: […] Think of all the lies I got to put up with!—Pretenses! Ain't that mendacity? Having to pretend stuff you don't think or feel or have any idea of?
Related words
- Word family
- mendacious mendaciously
Forms
- Plural
- mendacities → prevarications, lies, untruths, lyings…
Example sentences
- lie Such an honest man as John cannot have told a lie.
- lying I saw a gangster lying in the light from the hall.
- fib To call that fabrication a fib would be a criminal understatement.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| mendacity | rising | |
| lie | steady | |
| lying | rising | |
| untruth | steady | |
| prevarication | rising | |
| fib | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1, fib1
- 5 letters
- story2, lying2
- 7 letters
- untruth2
- 9 letters
- falsehood2
- 13 letters
- prevarication5
- 14 letters
- untruthfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).