English to Dutch Meaning of mendacious - leugenachtig

Mendacious :

leugenachtig

adjective

aan het liegen, onjuist, leugenachtig, vals, onecht, gefingeerd, legendarisch, onwaar, bespotten

Mendacious :: leugenachtigMendaciously :: mendaciously

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Definitions of mendacious in English

Adjective(1) given to lying(2) intentionally untrue

Examples of mendacious in English

(1) That promise has been revealed as mendacious nonsense.(2) Another strand recounts the author's debilitating experiences with the music industry in all its mendacious vainglory.(3) Here it is├ö├ç┬¬ equally malodorous, mendacious , but it's up there on the Web for all to see, truth is stranger than fiction.(4) It is because the argument has been had and they have comprehensively lost it - because every one of their arguments is either bogus, mendacious or plain demonstrably wrong.(5) And despite the fact that I've been almost exclusively mendacious since my late teens, it's not rained on me once.(6) The common treatment of the monopoly question is thoroughly mendacious and dishonest.(7) It makes me think we are dealing with a vain mendacious man who clung to power as long as he possibly could wrapped in a cloud of vainglory and falsehood, when he should have had the good grace to go quietly long ago.(8) Instead, the justifications offered for the restrictions contained in the amendment to the act have been either disingenuous or simply mendacious .(9) But it's no more mendacious than a bunch of other tendentious uses of statistics that are the common coin of political debate today.(10) He's mendacious and obnoxious, so what accounts for his appeal?(11) It is an outright lie, a fabrication by a mendacious and unscrupulous writer.(12) By the end - though of course they are much too polite to say so - I can see they are thinking that I must be either completely senile or completely mendacious .(13) He wanted me to know the sort of country I was living in and what was going on around me, in defiance of the chronically mendacious official propaganda.(14) Still, the nagging sense (given the mendacious way the plan/nonplan is being sold) is that people will be compelled to choose to be risk takers.(15) It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.(16) Though one imagines that successful players must be mean, damaged and mendacious , he turned out to be a thoroughly charming and friendly bear of a man.

(1) on the mend ::

aan de beterende hand

(2) mend fences ::

herstellen hekken

Synonyms

Adjective

1. lying ::

aan het liegen

2. untruthful ::

onjuist

3. dishonest ::

oneerlijk

4. deceitful ::

bedrieglijk

7. insincere ::

onoprecht

8. disingenuous ::

onoprecht

9. hypocritical ::

schijnheilig

10. fraudulent ::

frauduleus

11. double-dealing ::

huichelarij

12. two-faced ::

dubbelhartig

14. two-timing ::

twee-timing

15. duplicitous ::

dubbelzinnige

17. untrue ::

onwaar

18. fictitious ::

gefingeerd

19. falsified ::

vervalst

21. fallacious ::

misleidend

24. full of crap ::

vol onzin

25. perfidious ::

verraderlijk

Antonyms

1. honest ::

eerlijk

2. veracious ::

waarheidsgetrouw

Different Forms

mendacious, mendaciously

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