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Word: Mendacity
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century (as mendacite): from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from Latin mendax, mendac- ‘lying’ (see mendacious)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
mɛnˈdasɪti
Dialects: British English
Definition:
untruthfulness; lying
Short Definition:untruthfulness
Examples:- people publicly castigated for past mendacity
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