| 单词 | mendacious |
| 例句 | “Especially,” said Charles, “when the batty bandleader is a disingenuous and mendacious charlatan.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Arnold Pranks Fans as the Terminator…for Charity,” as it’s called on YouTube, tries to distract us from how bad a governor and what a mendacious human being Arnold is. Goofy prankster Arnold Schwarzenegger: The phony summer reboot nobody asked for 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “Believe me,” he intoned, reciting yet another way in which Trump had proved mendacious. Convention's Obama Video Seeks to Define 'Presidential' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z And let’s forget the euphemistic language, bordering on the mendacious, in the reiteration of words such as “collaboration” and “partnership.” They come to bury the Corcoran, not to praise it As for Huckabee Sanders, a more mendacious, condescending person could not be imagined. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Wojnarowicz did not see the epidemic as a tragic accident of biology but as an act of willful, mendacious neglect by the American government. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z He is an insufferable, treacherous, mendacious, self-pitying bore, given to abusing women physically. Movie Review: Cynicism Alongside Hope at Venice Film Festival 2011-09-01T12:30:05Z They also included much less mendacious interests as well. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z It is an unashamed apologia for treachery on the grand scale, a book about deception that is also, in large parts, entirely mendacious. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z So nice to wake up and read this, a little civilized something to latch onto as our republic descends into the poisoned well of coarseness and mendacious fraud this election season. In Julia Child’s Provençal Kitchen 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z More often, it’s an artfully unguarded anthology of one woman’s ongoing battles against depression, mendacious lovers and toxic memories, offered not with self-pity but with self-awareness and flickers of rage. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z But he was also mischievous, secretive, even mendacious: a builder of compartments in which he could hide. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z The paper denied Grant's allegations, issuing a statement calling them "mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media." Actor Coogan says UK tabloids operate like Mafia 2011-11-23T00:24:01Z They were trying to portray Heard or Depp as “so mendacious, so drug-addled or irresponsible that they could be capable of making everything up,” he added. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s Courtroom Face-Off: An Explainer 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Public outcry, a mendacious official report, and the unraveling of a nefarious plot follow. Review | A thriller set in Trump’s America is among the best audiobooks of the month 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z If it had been made in the ’90s, the servants would have been victims trodden down by their employers and the family would have been vile and mendacious and horrible. For Julian Fellowes, after 'Downton' and 'School of Rock' comes 'The Gilded Age' 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z I felt old and depleted and tired from worrying about my eldest son who works in a major hospital’s emergency room, tired of mendacious White House trumpetings and trumpery. Review | When the world was too much with me, here’s what I read for some R&R 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Where reviewers found The Sound of Music slow, sugary and mendacious, audiences discovered a heartwarming story about childhood, and a series of catchy, upbeat songs. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z This was Campbell not being mendacious, but simply faulty. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Gove and his colleagues went on to unleash a blizzard of patently mendacious claims, contributing, along with Trump, to the murky realm of “post-truth politics.” The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Joe always seems to be able to get everyone around him to do his bidding, but his success often hinges on mean, mendacious trickery instead of sly, admirable cleverness. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Enter Donna, for Sanity's Sake 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z And those are concepts that the resolutely perky, mendacious fashion world just can’t cope with; in its view, women must still be talon-sharp. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z I basically really enjoyed this movie, even while lamenting that I was enjoying it under mendacious premises and that there was something fundamentally cynical about its elegiac, retrospective tone. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: Superheroes face the sunset 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Each play was an intracranial epic, a succession of impossibly tall stories that liberated the theatre from plodding linearity and mendacious cause and effect. Simon Callow remembers Snoo Wilson: his work was 'the stuff of dreams' 2013-07-05T16:51:22Z The Mail on Sunday denied Grant's allegations, issuing a statement calling them "mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media." Hugh Grant lawyer hits out at UK tabloid tactics 2011-11-22T15:23:41Z If there were some kind of lesson to be gleaned from this mendacious film ... but forget it, there isn't. "Limitless": Take a pill, become a celebrity 2011-03-17T01:02:00Z “I think instinctively, he was always kind of a renegade and also a narcissist, and self-serving and mendacious.” How Julian Assange went from First Amendment hero to partisan figure in the eyes of the public 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Viewers expecting a bland, folksy portrait of two beloved American icons fusing in Holbrook’s one-man performance instead were treated to several of Twain’s stinging, occasionally cynical, barbs directed at mendacious and hypocritical politicians. AFI Docs turns in an exceptionally strong year, often at the expense of the U.S. government In many ways, Day for Night is similar to Godard's Contempt, and Truffaut does admit the suspicion that cinema and especially Hollywood is contemptible: mendacious, infantilised and corrupt. Day for Night ? review 2011-02-17T22:24:00Z In real life, the mendacious Iraq war continues; anti-war liberals failed to stop it and voted in a Democratic administration that continues to prosecute it and keeps Guantánamo open. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z The fate of the farm animals was so grim, the pigs were so mean and mendacious and treacherous, the sheep were so stupid. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z The real underlying argument that the defense is making, though, is that the sexual encounters that the women have been sufficiently mendacious or manipulated enough to call assault were actually consensual. What Bill Cosby’s Accusers Have to Endure on the Stand 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z But what I was trying to do in making the film is find the natural beyond the artifice, behind this lying, mendacious thing. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The pieces were mendacious, but what made them especially painful to absorb was their expectation that the authors be granted their full complexity while the women they harmed suffered a second erasure. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Ruses range from overpriced and largely useless acting and modelling courses to ersatz films, magazines and events – a mendacious la-la land where stars do not waltz in sunsets but parents do fritter away their savings. Nightmares in the dream factory: how Hollywood scams would-be child stars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It might have succeeded, he calculates, had Gen. Charles Cornwallis, who led that effort in the field, not been both mendacious and insubordinate. How Military Quagmires Have Caught Mighty Powers by Surprise 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z As Underwood, Kevin Spacey was lustily mendacious, but his villainy had no layers; it was demons all the way down. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine how that admirable ethos and this mendacious White House can coexist for very long. Perspective | Here’s a sword, General Kelly. Use it on the White House lies. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z In this account, Trump is as he ever was: craven, feckless, moody, narcissistic, mendacious, forgetful. How Donald Trump’s Obsession With Immigrants Has Shaped His Presidency 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Ghomeshi’s initial protestations that he was being persecuted for his unconventional tastes in the bedroom now seem mendacious or delusional or both. The Ghomeshi syndrome: Delusional creeps, from Clarence Thomas to Gamergate 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Inspector O is a complex, nuanced figure who understands that the regime he serves is corrupt, brutal and mendacious, but he remains loyal. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The liked tweets were said to have included descriptions of Ms Dorries as being "grotesque", "as thick as two short planks" and a "mendacious, vacuous goon". SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio dismissed the Journal's report as "totally mendacious" and called it a U.S. fabrication meant to justify Washington's decades-old economic embargo against the island. China has been spying from Cuba for some time, U.S. official says 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio dismissed the report as "totally mendacious and unfounded," calling it a U.S. fabrication meant to justify Washington's decades-old economic embargo against the island. China: 'Hacker empire' US is 'spreading rumours' with talk of Cuba spy station 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z But at least, with a final mendacious flourish of “inappropriate relationship,” he’s gone. Finally, some good news: Sexism in the media is on the defensive 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z During the next decade, presidents ordered direct American military interventions on a much smaller scale, while the rationales were equally mendacious. American prophet: Nearing the end of his life, Daniel Ellsberg can't be confined to the past 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office labeled as "mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever" a document asserting that the Mossad intelligence agency encouraged recent protests against him. Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking intel to be arrested Thursday 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office labelled as "mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever" a document asserting that the Mossad intelligence agency encouraged recent protests against him. Intel leaks: Biden says US 'getting close' on investigation 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Israel rejected that claim, with Mr. Netanyahu calling it “mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever.” Federal investigation into classified docs leak heats up as U.S., allies race to contain fallout 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu's office described the assertion as "mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever." US searches for source of highly-classified intel leak 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the report was "mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever". Israel rejects claim Mossad backed judiciary overhaul protests 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Director Michael Arden and set designer Dane Laffrey admirably conjure a Georgia of wild contradiction, of gentility and prejudice, of religious faith and mendacious immorality. Review | Ben Platt takes the lead in a too-stately ‘Parade’ on Broadway 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Third, Mr. Von Drehle’s analysis fails to include the role of the mendacious conservative media in the GOP’s descent into the sewer. Opinion | There are others responsible for the GOP ‘doom loop’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Or the media's amazement that Trump turns out to be an ignorant, mendacious and contemptible person. Whatever the hell happens in this election, let's commit to facing the truth 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Some of the loudest voices in the party — echoing the party’s mendacious leader-in-exile — recklessly persist in sowing unfounded doubts about our voting system. Column: 'Polarization means paralysis.' Can this election help the country move forward? 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z I was disgusted by the simplistic, often mendacious coverage of our post-9/11 war in Iraq, a country I had covered as the Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Journalists should abandon the mendacious convention of treating politics like sporting events. Media isn't doing nearly enough to defend democracy — but it's not too late to change 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere countered, saying he wanted “to re-establish the truth after the mendacious accusations and defamatory accusations from the Malian transitional government,” stressing that “France never violated Malian airspace.” Mali accuses France of `duplicitous acts’ which it denies 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In its mendacious rendering of the past, Putin’s historical screed tapped deep currents of imperialist nostalgia and the enduring belief that the lands to Russia’s west were its historical patrimony. Review | Putin’s centuries-long march into Ukraine 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Finally, as a spokesman for the White House for four years and as a co-conspirator in Trump's Stop the Steal campaign, Miller also peddled unsubstantiated and mendacious claims about widespread electoral fraud. Stephen Miller now a target of DOJ investigation — will he be the one to flip on Trump? 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z There are many reasons for this and it's been coming on for decades, but the last few years with the mendacious Donald Trump being at the center of our politics has made it exponentially worse. Trump reaps the mistrust he sowed 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The state’s GOP voters, rather than sticking to the Code of the West, allowed themselves to be duped by the loquacious, mendacious con man from New York City. The conning of the Cowboy State 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z What was surprising about the whole thing was not that conservative media was reckless, hateful, and mendacious. Trumpism before Trump: Misogyny remains the thread tying the right-wing coalition together 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z A more transparently mendacious claim is hard to imagine. Column: With a noxious family leave proposal, GOP pretends it's still pro-women despite antiabortion laws 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Over the years, he has routinely been described as mendacious, irresponsible, reckless and lacking any coherent philosophy other than wanting to seize and hold on to power. Johnson’s Lies Worked for Years, Until They Didn’t 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The United Kingdom’s mendacious, buffoonish prime minister is gone, or at least going. Opinion | Boris Johnson’s fall shows the limits of shamelessness as a superpower 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Nor did I. That had much to do with his record as a mendacious political operative. Column: Brett Kavanaugh's Roe vote proved it again — he has a truth problem 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z As cronies of the mendacious former President Trump, they would have voted no whenever the opportunity arose, and would have worked from the inside to portray the investigation as a witch hunt. Column: The original sin that plagues Congress’ Jan. 6 committee 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z That declaration is a smokescreen for the ongoing effort to perpetuate Big Cherry’s Big Lie — concerning the town’s origin story — which playwright Letts exhilaratingly brings to light, point by mendacious point. Review | Tracy Letts skewers America’s shames in stunning debut of ‘The Minutes’ 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes the American citizen acting as a “spouse” would back out of the sham marriage, and that’s when the scam became truly mendacious, prosecutors said. Feds bust massive marriage fraud ring; arranged more than 400 sham marriages 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "Imagine writing so thoroughly divergent from reality and so mendacious with innuendo that there is literally no utterance that won't make it worse," he said in an email. Trump supporter shopped Ashley Biden diary at fundraiser before selling to Project Veritas: report 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “Imagine writing so thoroughly divergent from reality and so mendacious with innuendo that there is literally no utterance that won’t make it worse,” he said. New Details Flesh Out How Project Veritas Acquired Ashley Biden’s Diary 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z In the audience were many Republican senators and House members, politicians-turned-jellyfish, who have shamed themselves and their party with their prevaricating, cowardly obeisance to Donald Trump and his mendacious assault on American democracy. A stark contrast in leadership 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “It’s surprising to see a speed at which a formerly respectable foreign policy agency is turning into a mouthpiece of mendacious propaganda.” Russia rejects Western concerns about Ukraine as smokescreen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Donald Trump was lifted to the White House on those empty, mendacious slogans. Rough waters for Democrats 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z In many countries, Facebook is synonymous with the internet and is the dominant source of information, much of it mendacious and incendiary. The scariest man on Earth 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z His record of service was marred only by the starkly misleading and mendacious speech he gave before the United Nations that justified the impending American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A legacy of honor and humility 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet the conspiratorial and at times clownish attempts to overturn the election — especially by Trump's legal team — don't make an unprecedented effort to destroy America's democratic traditions any less mendacious. Will the mainstream media ever face its failure to tell the truth about Jan. 6? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z We, your school chums at the country club, the beaches of Nantucket and the garden clubs throughout New England, are painfully disappointed in who you seem like you’ve become: a mendacious and malicious money machine. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s many, many sins against the preppy code 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Not content with this slack recklessness, the IOC compounds the risk for everyone by making mendacious statements. Perspective | The cauldron is lit in Tokyo’s covid Olympics. Let’s hope it’s not a fuse. 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z And he suggested if Republicans were going to take back the House and Senate in 2022 and reclaim the White House in 2024, they’re going to have to get past worship of their mendacious idol. Column: He called out Trump's election lie. That made him toxic to fellow Republicans 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The longer the mendacious Israeli narrative is embraced, the more empowered become the racists, bigots, conspiracy theorists and far-right hate groups inside and outside Israel. Israel's big lie: This isn't self defense — it's a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S. 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z And remember, you need to look just the right amount of angry: too angry and people will assume you’re motivated by rage, not angry enough and people will assume you’re a scheming, mendacious troublemaker. Furore around Glen Kamara shows how racists can keep getting away with abuse | Jonathan Liew 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Nearly three years since her star-studded wedding in Windsor Castle, Meghan gained sympathy in the United States by casting some unidentified members of the British royal family as uncaring, mendacious or guilty of racist remarks. UK royal family silent amid crisis over Meghan's claim of racist remark 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In fact, he said the boogaloo's claim to be nonviolent is "mostly mendacious" and calculated to shape media coverage. Talking to the boogaloo: An exclusive series of conversations with a would-be revolutionary 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z The plaintiff argues gun lobbyists like the NRA radicalized people with “mendacious white supremacist conspiracy theories.” Lawsuit: NRA’s rhetoric spurred deadly synagogue shooting 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Republicans harangued members of their own party for supporting his mendacious campaign to claim election victory. Trump Impeached for Inciting Insurrection 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Republicans harangued members of their own party for supporting his mendacious campaign to cling to claim election victory. House votes a second time to impeach Trump 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z He also chastised Wood for filing an error-ridden affidavit of an expert witness, describing the failure to ensure its accuracy as “either mendacious or incompetent.” Judge boots Trump attorney from Carter Page defamation suit 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Trump began his political career with the mendacious claim of birtherism — the racist lie that former president Barack Obama was not born in the United States — as part of an effort to delegitimize his predecessor. Analysis | The ending of Trump’s presidency echoes the beginning — with a lie 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z President Trump’s endgame, telegraphed for months, was to mount a mendacious attack on the integrity of the people and their vote, to shatter our most sacred right. Perspective | By opposing Trump, activist athletes helped America rediscover its conscience 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z My uncle’s speech late on election night wasn’t just entirely mendacious from beginning to end. Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Even under a president as mendacious as Nixon, the political universe was still bounded by a shared sense of reality. I built a time machine to the 1960s 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “They’re very mendacious about it. It’s very destructive to our republic; it’s very destructive to the democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It’s contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship.” Beware the September surprise 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Trump recordings loom so large because they offer the prospect of breaking through Trump’s alternative reality, of nailing down this most slippery and mendacious of presidents, of showing everyone who he really is. Opinion | Trump’s Deliberate Coronavirus Deception 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Everyday Americans tend to be "held down by a secretive group of wealthy elites" who manipulate "corrupt politicians, mendacious journalists, propagandizing schoolteachers and nefarious bankers." Nearly two centuries ago, a QAnon-like conspiracy theory propelled candidates to Congress 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z And making matters worse is that Trump refuses to condemn the violence from the far-right because doing so would undermine his mendacious claim that leftists are responsible for a lion's share of the mayhem. Republicans are running on a "big lie" about American cities — and it’s getting people killed 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z This mendacious convention just provided more evidence of that. Opinion | Trump desecrates a public monument in the finale to a convention of lies 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “They want no guns, they want no oil and gas, and they want no God,” Trump thundered Monday in a mendacious caricature of the Democratic platform. Column: Trump Party reigns supreme at the RNC 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, it might be too late for Republican voters, at least the ones who believe every word belched by their mendacious clown dictator. Destroying the Postal Service: Is that Trump's best shot at stealing the election? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “Those who choose loyalty to American values and allegiance to the Constitution over devotion to a mendacious president and his enablers are punished.” Army Officer Who Clashed With Trump Vows to Speak Out on Security Issues 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z "Those who choose loyalty to American values and allegiance to the Constitution over devotion to a mendacious president and his enablers are punished." Alexander Vindman compares Trump administration to 'authoritarian regime' in scathing op-ed 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Those who choose loyalty to American values and allegiance to the Constitution over devotion to a mendacious president and his enablers are punished. Opinion | Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters. 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Taboos against racial slurs and just mendacious, demeaning, derogatory speech — I think those taboos are very important. ‘Cancel culture’ is complicated. PEN America's CEO has a plan for that 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Pompeo, Trump’s most influential adviser and possible successor, is the undisguised, snarling face of this latter form of manipulative, intrusive and mendacious American power. Forget Putin, it's meddling by America's evangelical enforcer that should scare us | Simon Tisdall 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Partially thanks to that very credibility gap, he would be succeeded by Richard Nixon, who would continue the Vietnam War in an increasingly mendacious fashion, including the secret bombing of Cambodia. How the credibility gap became a chasm in the age of Trump 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z All the behavior we were taught as children about how to be honorable, truthful, civil members of society is routinely contravened by this gaudy, mendacious, nouveau-riche scam artist. Donald Trump's chaos and cruelty set the tone for the nation — and here we are 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z That seems to be working with Facebook, which thus far has announced a hands-off policy on political posting, no matter how noxious or mendacious. Column: Trump's attack on Twitter is a complete fake 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Fact Checker editor and chief writer Glenn Kessler labels Trump “the most mendacious president in U.S. history.” Opinion | Trump is lying to sway his reelection, and Democrats aren’t paying attention 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Such is a mendacious necessity since Flynn twice confessed to multiple crimes under oath in open court. How Bill Barr is advancing Trump’s quest to become "president for life" 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Readers who, like me, remember the Vietnam War may also recall the infamous "Five O'Clock Follies," the U.S. military's mendacious daily briefings from the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, during that endless conflict. Strange attractors: On being addicted to Trump and his press conferences 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z So when they say something flatly incorrect or mendacious, the press corps should call them out. Get political reporters off the coronavirus story — they're screwing it up 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Trump will then say that the lesson we should draw from these impeachment hearings is just how mendacious and radical the Democrats are. Impeachment, the Constitution and Donald Trump: Scholar William Howell on America after acquittal 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Sanger's "evidence" that Democrats are bending the facts is to quote one of Trump's routinely mendacious lawyers, Jay Sekulow, accusing Democrats of ignoring previous aid sent to Ukraine by the Trump administration. Give it up, media cowards — there's no way to "both sides" impeachment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Shortly after midnight this morning, Trump had some similarly mendacious missives. Trump pushes back against Bolton report with more bogus claims 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z But what of the fact that Facebook’s algorithms privilege the most hysterical, mendacious, loathsome kind of political discourse? Trump’s greatest ally in the coming election? Facebook | John Harris 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z A compliance investigation, instigated in part under pressure from Republicans and mendacious conservative agitators, cleared the foundation, in stark contrast to the investigation results of President Trump’s fraudulent charity. Opinion | Hillary Clinton has been exonerated 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Sanders, for whatever reason, is providing grist to his ugliest supporters who are overly eager to flog the misogynist stereotype of the mendacious woman. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders engage in soul-sapping fireworks at Iowa debate: Who benefits? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Some 17 years ago, right before the invasion of Iraq, America was caught up in a storm of mendacious pro-war rhetoric. Perspective | U.S. rhetoric around the Iran strike mirrors the 2003 logic for invading Iraq 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The surprise winner of the prize for the most mendacious and shameful partisan attack is former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley for her statement on the Democratic response to the killing of Iranian Maj. Opinion | Hey Republicans, demagoguery won’t hide Trump’s incoherence 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Grisham, on the other hand, is a professional liar employed by a mendacious White House, which overseen by a compulsive liar. Trump thought picking a fight with Iran would boost him. It backfired 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The prime minister allowed lucky listeners a real-time chance to see how he turns in some of his more memorable mendacious performances. Boy on the floor photo prompts Boris to add larceny to mendacity | Marina Hyde 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And because we live in an era when everything has to be as stupid and mendacious as possible, the Trump administration jumped all over the opportunity that Karlan gave it. Opinion | Pamela Karlan told a bad joke. The one we’re playing on ourselves is even worse. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In an opinion piece in London’s Times newspaper, Ephraim Mirvis pointed his finger directly at Corbyn, calling the Labour leader’s assertion that his party is confronting anti-Semitism in its ranks “a mendacious fiction.” Britain’s chief rabbi blasts Labour Party for anti-Semitic ‘poison’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In particular, he disputed the rabbi’s statement that Labour was peddling a “mendacious fiction” by claiming it was doing everything possible to tackle anti-Jewish hatred. Corbyn resists calls to apologise to British Jews after rabbi's claims 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z When the word “corruption” is used by an evidently corrupt politician—such as our self-dealing, profit-seeking, mendacious President—to describe something that other people do, the word “corruption” itself becomes corrupted. The Corruption of the Word “Corruption”—and So Much Else—Amid the Impeachment Hearings 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z And will his irritating, mendacious presence itself be enough to turn a swing state blue in protest? So Trump is legally moving to Florida? Good riddance | Hamilton Nolan 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z If an ad is mendacious, let the reader judge it as such. Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated | Simon Jenkins 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It means there fewer guardrails on a president who would be capricious, impulsive and mendacious even if surrounded by the best and the brightest. 'Disorder and chaos': Trump and Republicans mount furious impeachment fight 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z They will step up mendacious TV ad campaigns vilifying the Bidens. If Donald Trump goes down, he’ll try to take everyone with him | Simon Tisdall 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The more their opponents attacked the claim as mendacious, the more the national conversation was dominated by arguments about the cost of EU membership rather than its benefits. Boris Johnson seeks to divide and conquer with his incendiary rhetoric | Andrew Rawnsley 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z And yet it may be more likely that the men share a certain character—mendacious, narcissistic, destructive—than that one influenced the other. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: A Tale of Two Crises 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z This time the campaign is better prepared to extol the value of the EU, better armed for combat with unicorn promises and mendacious threats of Turkish invasions. Swinson’s remain extremism has given Labour a golden opportunity | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z This becomes possible largely thanks to mendacious use of the media. Top 10 books about fake news 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Some say it’s unfair to draw attention to Biden when President Trump is the most mendacious politician ever. Opinion | Joe Biden isn’t just a gaffe machine. He’s the Lamborghini of gaffes. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z In a country founded on the premise of immigration, such mendacious pearl-clutching is deeply discomfiting. A world of walls: the brutish power of man-made barriers 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z While it is true that some negative emissions technologies are practically feasible at modest scales, this knowledge encourages both magical and mendacious thinking. Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency | Simon Lewis 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Royal Portrush was as mendacious as advertised on Sunday after three days of general hospitable appeasement. British Open 2019: Shane Lowry's day in the sun was a wind-and-rain horror story for the rest of the field - Golf Digest 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s not a convenient umbrella term for all mendacious or unpleasant behaviour; it isn’t gaslighting every single time someone lies, or makes excuses. In accusing all creeps of gaslighting, we dishonour the real victims of it | Barbara Ellen 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z If we had a less mendacious president, the White House would get the benefit of the doubt. Iran’s behavior isn’t as mysterious as it looks 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z His setbacks are invariably the fault of bad judges, tampered juries, mendacious witnesses, biased journalists, even George Soros. Past special prosecutors explained themselves – and they all faced the same problems. What would Mueller say? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The Brexiters’ thesis that some trading El Dorado awaits Britain “in the rest of the world” is mendacious cynicism. Without true friends or allies, Theresa May’s downfall was inevitable | Simon Jenkins 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead the mainstream media was lured, time and again, into pseudo-reporting on pseudo-scandals that only thickened the murk around Clinton and cemented the mendacious narrative of moral equivalence between her and Donald Trump. Gender, "electability" and journalism: How to cover the 2020 election without sexism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Those responses, one mendacious, one tepid and both erroneous, have shaped public understanding. Opinion | Democrats’ obsession with redaction is obscuring the obvious: Trump committed high crime 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z In the process, he excoriates what he calls a Brexit betrayal by mendacious elites. Nigel Farage, Brexit’s Loudest Voice, Seizes Comeback Chance 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Mueller’s 448-page report provides official confirmation, backed up by sworn testimony and subpoenaed documents, of more than two years of news reporting about the frenzied, dysfunctional and mendacious operation Trump presides over. Impeachment: Mueller report revives the issue. Some Democrats wish it would go away 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Some of course were more mendacious than others. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z That’s less mendacious, I believe, than the elaborate con game Republican elites ran on their voters for decades, until it finally blew up in their faces. Do Democrats want a woman in 2020? No idea — but your Twitter feed doesn't know either 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But even by his usual mendacious standards, his latest lie was a doozy. Do windmills cause cancer? It's important to resist Trump's lies — even the dumbest ones 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He described the president as “mendacious” and “incompetent” and predicted he would not win reelection. ‘A total loser!’: Trump lashes out at George Conway, who has been questioning his mental health 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z We feed off of a mythology of whiteness and white supremacy, a mythology that is completely mendacious and entails vast historical distortion and historical amnesia. Chris Hedges: Democrats may well lose to Trump again, and Bernie Sanders is "naive" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The Administration’s elimination of regular on-the-record press briefings is part of a broader war on truth and transparency by a President who will go down as the most publicly mendacious American leader we’ve yet had. The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The Israeli government said the report was "hostile, mendacious and biased against Israel". Inequality 'undermining human rights' 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Israel’s newly appointed foreign minister, Israel Katz, labeled the commission a “theater of the absurd” and said the report was “hostile, mendacious and biased against Israel.” U.N. report on Gaza says Israeli forces may have committed war crimes 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Israel dismissed the report as “hostile, mendacious and slanted”. UN says Israel's killings at Gaza protests may amount to war crimes 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The only pattern here is one of people taking advantage of natural sympathetic responses to adversity because they are mendacious or damaged. Jussie Smollett’s story shows how intolerant of ‘victims’ we really are | Nesrine Malik 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It's hard for me, personally, to wrap my mind around what it must be like to find such mendacious boot-licking appealing. GOP goes Deep Orange: Republican Party is all in for "Trump Victory" in 2020 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Trump is the reverse: incompetent, mendacious, rude and seemingly incapable of non-instrumental relationships. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Many senior US officials and policymakers saw, and see, the Pakistani generals as cynical, mercenary and mendacious. What Trump gets wrong about the Osama bin Laden killing 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Yisrael Katz, acting foreign minister, said on Thursday that the investigation was “another hostile, mendacious and slanted report against the State of Israel”. UN says Israel's killings at Gaza protests may amount to war crimes 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Theresa May is trying to survive by pushing through an unsustainable and mendacious compromise, built on the unsustainable and mendacious compromises of the past. Theresa May’s Brexit dance of death: Understanding the British P.M.’s path to doomsday 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z To be direct, they are the only party standing in the way of a slow-metastasizing and especially mendacious form of fascism. America at the crossroads: On the eve of an election that means nothing, but means everything 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z I feel so much anger and bitterness toward the people that enabled, voted for and continue to defend this soulless, sociopathic, narcissistic, pathologically mendacious shell of a man. Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee set out to prove that Kavanaugh is a mendacious political hack with the strategy of acting like mendacious political hacks. Opinion | If there is any justice, Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” which began circulating on Tuesday, portrays Trump as ill-informed, incurious, impetuous, and mendacious. The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet in these books, the real liar is that mendacious news media. Review | I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z A story about children who are taken from their parents and warehoused, government camps, and a callous, mendacious authoritarian president couldn’t be much more relevant in the Trump era. The dystopia Darkest Minds misses an obvious chance at relevance 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Repeating his withering criticism in a column published on Wednesday in the liberal newspaper Haaretz, he wrote, “We accepted the mendacious official Polish narrative, and swallowed it.” Yad Vashem Rebukes Israeli and Polish Governments Over Holocaust Law 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Are most baby boomers buying this mendacious line? Millennials, more face time could save our lives | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But the federation's roads policing lead Tim Rogers urged government to "act quickly to prevent more officers suffering unnecessary and often mendacious prosecutions". New rules to protect police chase drivers 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z His well-written memoir, which combines a powerful argument for principled leadership with some acid comment on Donald Trump’s mendacious, “ego driven” alternative, contains a lot of advice to the contrary. Bitter attack on Trump by the FBI’s former director 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “He’s more guilty of that than some sort of preplanned and mendacious statements.” Trump and the Truth: A President Tests His Own Credibility 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z It gives mendacious trolls the powers to usurp our democratic freedoms. How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z In an emailed response Feb. 8, Deripaska’s spokesman said: “These scandalous and mendacious assumptions are driven by sensationalism and we totally refute these outrageous false allegations in the strongest possible way.” Jailed Instagram model wants to trade secrets for freedom 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z "I want to warn the media against the dissemination of these mendacious accusations," he said in a statement published by the Washington Post last week. YouTube and Instagram face Russian bans 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Some of Kelly’s colleagues offered a more innocuous explanation for his missteps; one senior White House official suggested that he may simply have been “forgetful or inartful,” rather than deliberately mendacious. White House reels as FBI director contradicts official claims about alleged abuser 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “These scandalous and mendacious assumptions are driven by sensationalism and we totally refute these outrageous false allegations in the strongest possible way,” a spokesman for Deripaska told AP. Russian watchdog orders YouTube to remove Navalny video 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “I want to warn the media against the dissemination of these mendacious accusations,” Deripaska said in his statement, which was emailed to news organizations including The Washington Post. Russian oligarch threatens to sue media over opposition investigation 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z British commentators and spy writers have aided and abetted this, by unthinkingly passing on the mendacious spin that the traitors put on their behaviour in memoirs and interviews. Decrypting the Cambridge Five 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z For exercising their “right under the First Amendment,” Fusion laments that it has been subject to Congressional harassment and a “succession of mendacious conspiracy theories,” including by us. Fusion’s Russia Fog 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The former Labour leader Ed Miliband added: “It is an expression of how mendacious, absurd and parochial we look to the world.” Blue passports could put UK citizens at back of queue, EU officials say 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The slogan “believe women” arose because women have often been assumed from the outset to be crazy, mendacious, manipulative and anything but honest when they charge men of sexual crimes. Don't let the alt-right hijack #MeToo for their agenda | Rebecca Solnit 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Now we will live into a country that is a shadow of itself, hardly great, but crippled by a rapacious, mendacious and cruel conservatism manifest in policy and the courts. Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here’s How. 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s difficult to say with confidence whether Trump is ignorant or mendacious, but the idea that the rich “will not be gaining at all” the Republican tax plan is plainly ridiculous. Trump pretends his tax plan won't be a giveaway to the wealthy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In a world that decides, off the bat, that women are crazy or mendacious or simply wrong. Perspective | On the stand in her groping case, Taylor Swift was every woman. And that’s what’s so sad. 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Friends and supporters say that is a mendacious fabrication designed to conceal her continued extra-legal incarceration. Get out! Chinese agents bar access to the 'free' wife of Liu Xiaobo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It is hard to imagine how, in such a short time, an elected president could reveal how truly bad he is; how ignorant, insensitive, mendacious, dysfunctional, self-centered, and at times borderline psychotic. Is Donald Trump simply the worst human being we can imagine? 14 experts weigh in 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z He is animated by grievance — recall the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner, when Obama deftly skewered Trump for his mendacious support of the birther movement. Opinion | Trump’s attacks on the press don’t hurt the press. They hurt you. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Three months later, Trump is still blaming Yates, not his mendacious former aide. Perspective | Yates’s testimony pumps the bellows on the Trump-Russia probe 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office. A Hundred Days of Trump 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The man who enabled a single mendacious party to seize power and create a semi-dictatorship in America has lost all honor. Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z From the lectern in the White House briefing room, he throws around words and hopes to escape into his office after answering the same questions with the same — often baffling, sometimes mendacious — answers. Opinion | The Daily Spicer: ‘Holocaust centers.’ Yes, the press secretary used that term. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z He is a mendacious liar and a bully. Donald Trump’s flagrant hypocrisy: Suddenly the mean-spirited clown-king cares about Syrian children? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped. Late-night hosts on Jared Kushner: 'If anyone could drive Isis crazy, it’s a New York landlord' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “He is by far the most mendacious president in American history,” said Edwards, a political scientist who edits the scholarly journal Presidential Studies Quarterly. There's a long history of presidential prevarication. Here's why Donald Trump is 'in a class by himself' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The crime is as simple as it is mendacious. Hackers Use New Tactic at Austrian Hotel: Locking the Doors 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But those rifts are nothing compared to the enmity between the media and Trump, who has repeatedly trashed journalists as some of most dishonest and mendacious people in the country. Obama’s Not-So-Final Goodbye 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Today we are on the edge of an abyss: the installation of a mendacious and cathartic white president who will replace him. Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z “American allies and partners in the region have been disheartened by a foreign policy that has veered from feckless to mendacious.” At economic summit, Obama seeks to shore up U.S. focus on Asia-Pacific region 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “I say ‘mendacious,’ which implies that he’s knowingly lying. There's a long history of presidential prevarication. Here's why Donald Trump is 'in a class by himself' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It will remain at best a fiction, a mendacious myth, while reality has gone beyond satire. ‘Hillary Clinton didn’t fail us. We failed her’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The Balfour Declaration plays a crucial role in their mendacious narrative depicting Zionism as a form of imperialism. Anti-Semitism Goes to Parliament 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Yes, he is a shallow, mendacious, boorish and extremely dangerous man. Trump is no outsider: he mirrors our political culture | George Monbiot 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But that was back when he was a brassy, vulgar, and mendacious real-estate mogul. Trump and the Truth: The “Lying” Media 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He remains true to himself — proudly ignorant, blustering and serially mendacious. The cold, boring truth: Hillary Clinton will win 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Contrast that with Donald Trump, who in a televised national security forum Wednesday offered a staggering array of ignorant and mendacious assertions — and acknowledged no regrets about any of them. Gary Johnson’s Aleppo gaffe was bad. But Trump’s consistent ignorance is worse. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, sent a memo to his staff about Trump, assuring them that it is “entirely fair to call him a mendacious racist.” What Do People Mean When They Say Donald Trump Is Racist? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It was too long, too angry, too humorless, too mendacious, too repetitious, not at all poetic and poorly delivered — but it might have worked. With law and order his priority, Trump declares, 'I am your voice' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z For a brassy, vulgar, and mendacious Presidential candidate, the rules are different, and he’s made it clear he doesn’t like them. Trump and the Truth: The “Lying” Media 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Donald Trump remains true to himself — proudly ignorant, blustering and serially mendacious. The cold, boring truth: Hillary Clinton will win 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z It was a martial, coarse, angry and, of course, mendacious address. Trumpocalypse Now 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z To think that Corey Lewandowski, joined at the hip for 18 months to the most mendacious political candidate in memory, deserves a place on a news network! CNN can’t sink any lower: Corey Lewandowski’s hiring is an affront to our very democracy 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps no promise was more audacious — and mendacious, critics say — than the 350-million-pounds-a-week claim. Having won, some ‘Brexit’ campaingers start backpedaling 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps no promise was more audacious — and mendacious, critics say — than the £350-million-a-week claim. Having Won, Some ‘Brexit’ Campaigners Begin Backpedaling 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Newspapers which supported EU membership in 1975 are mostly on the other side in 2016, partisan even by Fleet Street’s mendacious standards. What is Brexit and why does it matter? The EU referendum guide for Americans 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z But this was just the tip of a mendacious iceberg. After massacre, Trump speech takes 2016 race in a scary direction 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The talk on the left is equally intense with Clinton castigated as an utterly cynical and mendacious tool of corporate interests who will rush the country into the next unjustified war. Paranoid style in U.S. politics lives on in 2016 campaign 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Among the Afghan venders, the worst of the tamale wars took place in Seattle, where the trade was dominated by a Khan with a mafioso reputation: mean, mendacious, scary as hell. The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z She needs to motivate her base of liberal and minority voters, and then just persuade enough moderate white male voters uncomfortable with Trump's mendacious, erratic personality to vote for her. Key G.O.P. Donors Still Deeply Resist Donald Trump’s Candidacy 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The thing is, if the NFL weren’t so treacherous, disingenuous, unscrupulous, mendacious, insidious, duplicitous, hypocritical and unprincipled, it would be pretty funny. The Raiders’ pursuit of a Las Vegas move is so terrible, it makes perfect sense 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z His lawyer vehemently denied what he called “mendacious, defamatory and baseless” charges. ‘We can no longer stay silent’: fury erupts over sexism in French politics 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z There he put together the team that produced a series of commercials for Isuzu cars and trucks featuring Joe Isuzu, a blatantly mendacious fictional dealer, played by the actor David Leisure. James D. Travis, Whose TV Ad Helped Re-elect Reagan, Dies at 83 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z His lawyer sued two French media outlets on Tuesday for defamation, condemning the claims as "mendacious". France Baupin affair: 'Sexual harassment' inquiry launched - BBC News 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Those who accuse Trump opponents of elitism are engaged in a particularly mendacious slur. Trump’s victory is leading to lunacy in high places 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z According to one of Mrs Merkel’s aides, Mr Putin’s mendacious denials that the “green men” who seized Crimea were Russian soldiers were a turning point for her. Fool me once 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Related: On my radar: Jonathan Meades’s cultural highlights According to a probably mendacious soviet of pollsters, statisticians and PRs, the UK has more subscribers to social media than any other European country. Appy medium: could Instagram start an artistic revolution? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Sure, she’s an unlikeable, demagogic, smarmy, haughty, mendacious bag of complete and utter failure, but… sorry, where was I going with this? Bon voyage, wackos! A look back at the doomed campaigns of the GOP’s wing-nut warriors 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z We think Hillary Clinton is at least as mendacious as Trump, but it would be wrong for a reporter to call her that in a news story. Question Authority 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Racism and barbed vernacular — sentences flit like venomous sparrows — salt this mendacious stew. 'Hateful Eight's' Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson touch raw nerve of racism 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z This latest debacle merely underscores just how superficial and mendacious the term always was from the beginning. They are all complete frauds: Constitutional conservatives? The right’s big lie collapses in Benghazi lunacy 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Netanyahu made clear, his office said, that he expects the Palestinian Authority “to stop its wild and mendacious incitement, which is causing the current wave of terrorism.” 6 Palestinians dead as violence grips Gaza, Jerusalem 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z They think their rulers are corrupt, inept and mendacious, if not actually treasonous. Regicidal Republicans 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z When you label a newsmaker a “mendacious racist,” you are not “grappling” with how to be objective but deciding not to be. Question Authority 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z As a commemoration of World War II, Mr. Xi’s parade was mendacious. China’s ‘peaceful’ show of force 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Hamid Gul, the wily and mendacious former head of Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, died on Saturday of a brain hemorrhage. Postscript: Hamid Gul, 1936-2015 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The ideological purification of the Republican Party is so intense that even a campaign as mean-spirited, mendacious and stupid as Romney’s wasn’t enough to keep the party stalwarts in his camp. Scott Walker's strange election strategy is to be Mitt Romney | Jeb Lund 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Blatter, too, when he finally emerged from crisis talks in his bunker to walk past the police vans parked outside the conference centre and deliver a predictably mendacious promise to change. For the game, for the world, finally do the right thing. Go 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He highlighted Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s mendacious threat to the global community, invoking state-level opposition to EPA greenhouse gas regulation—and the key role of casting it as a moral struggle. Here’s how we defeat the science deniers: Even wingnuts learn that reality is good business 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Germany’s pundits spluttered with rage: the Greeks were mendacious as well as impertinent. Pointing fingers 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z When not boring, state output is often shockingly mendacious. A guttering flame 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Probably best to just say, “Thanks for applying for the job, but we checked your resume and, well, too mendacious. So, don’t call us, we’ll call you.” JOSPEH CURL: Forget Brian Williams, it’s Hillary Clinton’s lie that matters 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But rather than courteous condolences, Western leaders have queued up to eulogize the late King with groveling and outright mendacious statements that border on Orwellian doublespeak. After King Abdullah's Death, Western Leaders Sing False Praises 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Often, however, these visitors to the cold north found the Soviet Union drab and mendacious, and that is the animating theme of Kadare’s tale, in which even the Kremlin walls are “unfinished, apathetic and undramatic.” Book review: ‘Twilight of the Eastern Gods,’ by Ismail Kadare The real word that applies though is “mendacious.” JOSEPH CURL: Obama’s spectacular incompetence turns deadly 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z They had actually managed to take down a mendacious American president, and in doing so they came to symbolize the hope and heroism of a new generation. How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z As of 2008, the North Korean regime considered Sweden a mendacious US pawn, manipulated beyond recognition by the imperialists. North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1,000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago - And Is Still Using “The tactic is not really to engage with the facts. It’s pushing a certain narrative, deflecting questions. It seems so mendacious in the face of the very real suffering and very real pain being caused.” Meet The Public Face of The Israeli Defence Forces I would like her to know that we Americans are not all mendacious xenophobes with lynch-mob prejudices and a hankering for frontier justice. Propaganda ministers, all of them: Our pathetic, spoon-fed media pushes half-truths, again 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It's stupid when it's a mendacious and politically cynical attack designed to rob a woman of her identity by likening her to a supposedly offensive masculinity. Why should we be shocked that Hillary Clinton curses? Swearing is so cool 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Ignorant and/or mendacious accusations like these inflame fears and hatred but do little to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Will Immigrants Make You Sick? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z As of 2008, the North Korean regime considered Sweden a mendacious US pawn, manipulated beyond recognition by the imperialists. North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1,000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago - And Is Still Using The Mail struck back, releasing a statement that read, “Mr. Grant’s allegations are mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media.” George Clooney, Monster-Proof 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z What’s wrong is the mendacious hypocrisy of those drawing six- and seven-figure salaries to run college sports claiming that those pursuits are “amateur” enterprises. In O’Bannon trial, NCAA officials give amateur-hour performance Though spending $750 million a year, they lack the slickness of Al Jazeera or Russia Today — not to mention the latter’s single-minded and frequently mendacious retailing of the official line. Voice of America needs to keep its objective voice He railed against the press for covering the event and the Obamacare 7 million figure with, he claimed, mendacious intent. Glenn Beck responds to Obamacare enrollment news by bellowing incoherently 2014-04-02T20:45:00Z According to Bill, he considers his critics to be misinformed more than mendacious. Bill O’Reilly shrugs off critics, says people hated Jesus too 2014-03-24T15:32:00Z Prosecutors have portrayed George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch enthusiast who shot the 17-year-old Martin, as being many things: profane, mendacious, overzealous, violent. George Zimmerman trial: Race is a subtext, not the focus 2013-07-02T18:24:13Z Victors usually write history, so where is Tony Blair to tell of all he achieved and rebut the mendacious narrative of the coalition? Labour's spending worked. Why don't they defend it? 2013-07-02T06:00:34Z This is a manifestation of the ongoing, mendacious campaign to delegitimise Israel. 'No proof' Israel shot Gaza child 2013-05-20T12:53:00Z Meaning that, as well as fans, pro-gamers constantly have to deal with trolls and mendacious yahoos. Starcraft II and the bad boy of pro-gaming 2013-05-20T10:59:39Z The worst is that it is a mendacious stigmatisation of a system that is all that stands between the majority of claimants and destitution. From welfare to banks, fairness is the key 2013-04-06T23:06:13Z Forgive me if I don't take a hypocritical, mendacious dullard such as yourself too seriously when complain about 'name-calling' and then call a person a coward in the same sentence. Guns: Your Brain in a Shootout 2013-01-17T06:40:00Z He will denounce Osborne's mendacious dividing of "strivers" from "skivers" for the disreputable dishonesty it is. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z Instead of the standard Hollywood hagiography, it is an act of civic virtue: a movie about a living, breathing, horse-trading, occasionally mendacious genius of a politician. Joe Klein: Lincoln's Lessons for Washington 2012-11-29T13:20:25Z As I’ve said before it is possible, Ivanishvili being a politician, that this is all a big mendacious song and dance. Georgia is Moving Toward the West And There Is No Need To 'Mourn' Mikhail Saakashvili 2012-10-11T13:19:46Z In Saudi Arabia, a senior cleric has condemned the practice as "dishonest and mendacious", following a revelation that several high-profile Saudis were buying "phantom followers". A Twitter fatwa may seem odd, but it's a sign of our times 2012-08-21T11:40:39Z Forgive me if I don't take a hypocritical, mendacious dullard such as yourself too seriously when complain about 'name-calling' and then call a person a coward in the same sentence. Guns: Your Brain in a Shootout 2013-01-17T06:40:00Z At times, and in specific categories of deceit, one campaign is more mendacious than the other. Why Deceit Is Everywhere in the 2012 U.S. Election Campaign 2012-08-10T11:20:37Z It could be that for many of those in power, their hope is that this crisis will blow over and the hypocritical, mendacious, "light touch" status quo will resume. Letters: End the light-touch response to financial crimes 2012-07-01T19:59:02Z But he rolled over, without even securing Cameron's pledge to support AV in the referendum and prevent Lord Ashcroft's mendacious no campaign. Now is the perfect time for Liberal Democrats to wield the knife 2012-06-04T21:00:01Z It argued last week that Britain's austerity is "mendacious" spin, and a "con" and, in case you hadn't got the message and been bathed in sufficient spittle, "bare-faced deception". The austerity deniers want to get us out of this crisis by hacking at the poor and vulnerable 2012-05-21T19:00:11Z They have chosen to eagerly act upon the frivolous statements of a much mendacious and mischievous newspaper, as an attempt to injure a man who in no way has been guilty of wrong. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z I am afraid," answered this mendacious deceiver; "I am sorry to trouble you, but I will have to be helped up the hill, after all. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z No one put any confidence in this mendacious slate, which soon became known on board as the 'Competition Log,' and inspired our wits with many merry quips. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z A veritable army had landed at Killala under false colours, flying a mendacious Union Jack: veterans to the number of twelve hundred, who had fought in Italy under Napoleon. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Mr Dacre also discussed his description of actor Hugh Grant's allegations about phone hacking at the Mail as "mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media". Grant stands by phone hack claim 2012-02-11T09:43:13Z They are a mendacious set, but Christianity is no more responsible for their misconduct than it is for the treachery of Judas Iscariot or the wrongs done to Paul by Alexander the coppersmith. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z They were ignorant, credulous, mendacious, fanatical, pious, unreasonable, bigoted, hypocritical, and for the most part, insane. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z My wife is upstairs, reading the mendacious prospectus of a new Continental spa, and I don't suppose she will develop the symptoms it professes to cure much before six o'clock. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The history of Ireland has been so perverted by mendacious faction that the truth lies deeply interred. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Recent experience is also overlaid onto decades of colonial rule by the west in the last century, followed by a mendacious Iraqi dictatorship stretching into this one. At War Blog: 'Hell No, They Won't Go' 2011-12-16T17:16:29Z Rousseau was induced by his resentment to give in his Confessions a wholly mendacious portrait of Grimm’s character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Luckily for us, hers is one volume, not three, and it’s less self-serving, less mendacious, less monomaniacal than Kissinger’s. Rice Calls Cheney Naive, Recalls Movies With Bush, Blair: Books 2011-10-31T04:28:07Z If the mind is not utterly mendacious, it affirms, positively and unreservedly, "Two and two are four, must be four; and to see it so, is conditional for all intellect." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It labours under great suspicion from the mendacious character of the people, whose credit it was written to support. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z Noble man! you have proved by these acts that humanity is not a mendacious idol, and that devotion to humanity is not a mere matter of gain and self-aggrandizement. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z They could not bear his mendacious stories, or put up with his coarse language; or indeed with him, himself. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z As it was, the campaign of 1813 opened with a reverse which it was vainly endeavoured to cloak by mendacious bulletins. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z These words, audacious as mendacious, caused a tremendous uproar. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z It was Mrs. Sherman who unconsciously provoked the mendacious statement which stimulated the General's curiosity. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z And love too is like that mendacious moon, which when it seems to decrease is just growing and swelling toward its fulness. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z “There go all my ’opes,” said the mendacious chauffeur, pointing to the dark stains of spilled coffee as though they symbolised his aspirations. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Would such a shifty suppression of his decision be one whit less a treason than the rendering of a mendacious one? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Neither Colonel Brereton's Aunty nor the mendacious and persuasive colonel is a character whom any American would cross the street to avoid—far from it. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Perhaps that is what fans, players, coaches, directors and journalists prefer, but if it is, then the biennial handwringing about the state of player development is mendacious and hypocritical. Goalless and doomed to fail: young England betrayed by a club culture 2011-08-11T08:46:28Z According to many, children are in general accomplished little liars, to the manner born, and equally adept with the mendacious savage. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z “Would that I had never learned to write!” said one; Pompilia, splendidly mendacious, merely out-distanced him with, “To read or write I never learned at all!” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Some one or other in the hotel told me I ought to go and look at them, and I did,” added mendacious Phil. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It is in this connection that Holm justly finds fault with the modern critics, who reject indeed the ribaldry of Æschines as mendacious, but set down that of Demosthenes as a source of sober history. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z He, however, had struck out some hardy novelties and some mendacious illustrations. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Mr. Dunaway, on the drive, proved to be a most agreeable talker, oily of tongue,—eloquently mendacious. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z I know that I have done well; I know that I have not obeyed a chimera, an artificial and mendacious law, but a law true, universal, obligatory upon all intelligent and free beings. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z All that was accepted for art, all that was taken for poetry, he rejected as barren symbols, and would fain have broken up as mendacious idols. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z One paper affirmed, among other fulsome and mendacious remarks, that the royal defunct must have taken his departure from this world with a clear conscience, as he had never injured an individual! The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z We become more intimately acquainted with the great Cardinal, by laying together the satire of the mendacious Skelton with the domestic eulogy of the gentle Cavendish. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z That immersion in a brand of politics even more mendacious than the Westminster kind left a strong impression. Jeremy Hunt 'blown away' by sport's ability to inspire young people 2011-03-28T23:06:01Z No social art can change this nature,—it may be more or less covered; it always reappears, overcomes and rends the veil with which a mendacious legislation envelops it. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The historian of this expedition was a mendacious Recollet friar, Father Louis Hennepin, a name which has attained some notoriety in early Canadian annals. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z He knows that Miss Lily squabbles frightfully with her little brother in real life; and how entirely mendacious is her statement as to his destitution of playthings. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z "The Romance of the Colorado River" and "A Canyon Voyage," openly assails White as a mendacious fabricator of the worst type. Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers 2011-03-08T03:00:36.293Z Using the briefest of quotable snippets from each, the documentary builds a crude argument that the global financial meltdown was a conscious "inside job" caused by greedy, ruthless, mendacious, out-of-control bankers. Bankers played a leading role in the crisis, but they aren't criminals 2011-03-05T00:06:08Z Galloway, for his part, has labelled Campbell "the most mendacious, malodorous public servant in the land". Epic confrontations 2011-01-20T09:33:51Z To the skill of the mendacious priest we are indebted for the first verbal description of the falls by an eye-witness, as well as for the first artistic delineation of them. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The medieval view of this malignant spirit—which makes the devil out as dull and stupid as he is mendacious and spiteful—still lingers in some parts. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z I could not even imitate his own mendacious candour lest I should give him and myself completely away. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z As we all know, William's mother received endless adulation and sympathy – some deserved, some not, considering she could be a self-absorbed, mendacious piece of work. I do hope Kate Middleton has a cunning plan 2010-08-28T23:08:00Z Their mendacious sophistry creates an atmosphere in which Enright felt his rage is normal and acceptable. Man Is Held in Anti-Muslim Stabbing 2010-08-25T16:49:00Z Yet those who represent their evident goodwill towards each other as nothing more than PR spin from their team, as some did today, are equally mendacious. Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button both happy to be first among equals 2010-07-09T21:00:00Z Something else Bill Clinton’s folly also led to was the Beltway media’s mendacious “War on Gore.” Let's put an end to political voyeurism 2010-06-11T22:12:00Z For the there was the "usual mix of faked anger, massaged statistics, creepy-crawly planted questions and general hubbub". describes the exchanges as "nasty, witless and mendacious" - everything voters hate about politicians. Election tax row leads newspapers 2010-04-08T04:54:00Z They reveal themselves as manipulative and mendacious, promising to let Mr. Mastrogiacomo go, then changing their minds and threatening to execute him. The Taliban and Personal Terror 2010-02-26T02:58:00Z In the morning he was found drunk, in which condition he confessed all, but with such craven and mendacious addition as involved me also, who was thereupon cited to appear. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Neither should we reject them, equally uncritically, as automatically exaggerated and mendacious, and hence worthless. The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California Usually I only meet fishermen more flagrantly mendacious than anywhere else. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Here were the twentieth-century counterparts of the gentlemen-gamblers of the old Mississippi steamboat days, a gentry bold and mendacious, unable to perceive that what had been must not for that reason continue to be. The Tempering This mendacious appeal to the numerical majority to force a demoralising and pauperising institution upon the minority, is an attempt to revive, in municipal legislation, a form of coercion we have outgrown in religious matters. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses But all his protestations were regarded by that official, as only the very perfection of art—the well-feigned evasions of a mendacious Greek. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs But later it was seen that all this was a fantastic make-believe, poured out in the Mould of their mendacious evilness, which they frequently indulged in, as we shall see further on. History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. At the same time, I nourished in my breast a lively desire that my mistress might be innocent, and that the accusation of so base a fault might be proved a vile mendacious calumny. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The living seed of life, budding in him, cast out all that was false, fictitious or mendacious. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Apart from the ignorance naturally resulting from their condition, that condition powerfully tends to render them sensual, indolent, artful, mendacious, stealthful, and revengeful. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery At this same place the mendacious batterymen gathered in the warm afternoons to tell sea serpent legends and fairy stories about some great event which had never happened in the trenches. The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. The world might be more profitably engaged in mending its own tortuous and mendacious ways, and allowing poor solitary wretches to fondle their whims and caprices. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "I shouldn't think of it," said Durant, magnificently mendacious. The Return of the Prodigal A long silence followed Ruth’s bravely mendacious assurance. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted This was his namesake Dr. Caius, equally mendacious but more reputable, the pious 'second founder' of a great Cambridge college. The Oxford Degree Ceremony A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Look at his story, and tell me could anything be more pitiful and mendacious? Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. But one of their apologists, at the time, produced a version of the events which is, beyond all doubt, boldly mendacious. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery As Mr. McGavack well demonstrates, most of our Anglophobia is manufactured by the alleged "historians" who poison the minds of the young through mendacious textbooks. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 "Oh—bless me, I'd practically abandoned that notion myself," said Mr. Bolt, airily mendacious. The Monk of Hambleton He is tempted to make ambiguous statements; pledges, with secret passages of escape; contracts, with fraudulent constructions; lying excuses, and more mendacious promises. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty The Colombian revolution––her mendacious connivances with Ames––her sinful, impenitent life of gilded vice––aye, the door was now closed against that, absolutely and forever more. Carmen Ariza An author so conspicuously mendacious as he who wrote the Apology for English consumption is unworthy of belief on any point. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Only a moment ago he had broken the seals—the mendacious seals that certified to the world that the flasks were fully charged. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The too flattering terms which in a moment of weakness I applied to Tuam and its people are described as "lying, hellish, mendacious misrepresentations." Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Even in documents which have not been composed for a practical purpose, every interested statement has a chance of being mendacious. Introduction to the Study of History Tom Leslie had merely read over the mendacious advertisement, at first, with the same indifference given to thousands of corresponding humbugs; and at the first reading he had not noticed the place at all. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 The above was drawn forth by my condemnatory comments on the published speech of a Senator, wherein the truth was as a grain of wheat in a bushel of mendacious chaff. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories Hunter, being by nature gossipy and mendacious, waxed more and more so with every glass of Heidseck he took down. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 "Lord have pity on our mendacious world," the old gentleman sighed. Sunlight Patch This first series of questions will yield the provisional result of enabling us to note the statements which have a chance of being mendacious. Introduction to the Study of History With this mendacious stuff the "Religion of Love" systematically poisons the innocent minds of little children. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals "Blessed angel, you mean!" said mendacious Bingo, blinking under a Little Lord Fauntleroy fringe. The Dop Doctor If the intuitions of our reason are pronounced deceptive and mendacious, so also must the intuitions of the senses be pronounced illusory and false. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Nothing remained for me but to pay my mendacious Malay half the number of florins he demanded and follow my new guide. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore The historian ought to distrust a priori every statement of an author, for he cannot be sure that it is not mendacious or mistaken. Introduction to the Study of History It is much more likely that he himself fabricated this mendacious nonsense about feathers and soot, being unable even in his evidence to divorce himself further from his kitchen. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura ‘I always heard that Ireland was a mendacious country,’ said Cilly. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster “Points” are given by one operator to another with the same mendacious glibness as of yore. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Then that which was thought to be mendacious and absurd seemed to be true in the perennial mutating, albeit perhaps, in terms of truth, non-evolving thoughts of the mind. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais They alone will treat Ralegh's assertion, if it were his, as 'evidence of his unblushing effrontery,' to whom his accounts are necessarily mendacious, and those of the Court, King James's Court, necessarily honest. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography It lacks gaiety; the liar has sunk into a rascal, and we can hardly lend credence to the amendment in his mendacious habit when he applies the art of dissimulation to generous purposes. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Ah, well," the mendacious little creature replied, with an indifferent shrug of her soft shoulders, "mostly I'm not rosy at all, but there's days when I is. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. To my profound relief, the influx of patients ceased, and the practise sank into its accustomed torpor; whereby I was able without base and mendacious subterfuge to escape in good time to my tryst. The Eye of Osiris There were less mendacious illusions like a marriage that lasted for some years and deliberate fraudulent ploys by calculating self-centered beings wanting to improve the circumstances of their lives more expeditiously. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais According to his estimate, as reported by his mendacious son, Sir Lewis, the whole was worth £50,000. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Angie said suddenly and turned with a mendacious inspiration on her brother. The Fifth Ace A good part of the enormous literature of lynching is devoted to a discussion of its causes, but most of that discussion is ignorant and some of it is deliberately mendacious. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Misrepresented and defamed, as he maintained the Indians were, by the mendacious reports sent to Spain, Las Casas composed this interesting apology as one part of his scheme of defence. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings As a boy he already violently disliked mendacious boys, such as the little braggart of whom he tells in the Colloquies. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The mendacious fiction was framed by the chief priests and elders of the people. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern With this mendacious explanation Gustavus was forced to be content. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa This story was too improbable to be believed, and Captain Bainbridge of the Philadelphia threatened to hang as a common pirate the mendacious Reïs Ibrahīm Lubarez unless he showed his commission. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Yet, for all this mendacious and vainglorious boasting, Collins was a man of unquestionable ability, and when fully aroused could write a paragraph well calculated to make the ears of his enemies to tingle. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion It changed bearers no less than six times before the mendacious signpost was reached, and then its victims were so exhausted that they had to lie down on the grass and rest. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters What would Mr. Black say if by chance he were to get hold of a copy of any of those Sunday morning newspapers and read that mendacious paragraph? The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice I was quite cured of my mendacious propensities, by the pain, the horror, and the disgust that they had inflicted upon me at my last school. Rattlin the Reefer My wig, you anatomy, you mendacious inventor of outrageous impossibilities. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days In addition, then, to her personal history, Miss Vaughan’s memoirs contain:—I. A mendacious biography of the English mystic, Thomas Vaughan. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer My correspondent’s letters were much more mendacious compositions. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. If I had I should have known better than to lend my moral support to a good-for-nothing, tarnished, ill-regulated, mendacious piece of Britannia metal, that chooses to call itself a silver watch. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch I now come to the most miserable of all, my mendacious one. Rattlin the Reefer Callan and the others looked wisely at the mendacious instrument, and then began to sheer off with the best grace they could. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 The moment fiction becomes mendacious it is bad, for it induces us to believe a lie. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Therefore 'Johnson, viewed in relation to Milton, was a malicious, mendacious, and dishonest man.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It is strange that their own want of veracity does not lead them to doubt that of others; they are alike credulous and mendacious. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris I stayed at Mr Root’s school for very nearly three years, and I shall divide that memorable period into three distinct epochs—the desponding, the devotional, and the mendacious. Rattlin the Reefer The false and impious Cabala is a certain mendacious kind of Jewish tradition, full of innumerable vanities and falsehoods, differing but little from necromancy. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Therefore, unless the rational creation is mendacious, to be deified, is, in some mystical but true sense, the final destiny of all souls. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life These paltry charges, may it please your Honor, these foul and slanderous charges, the filthy ooze of an irresponsible newspaper, are incredible, preposterous—nay, mendacious! A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Like every artist of the mendacious, he was quick for those little deeds that would give his lies a look of righteous integrity. The President A novel He knew her to be mendacious, timorous, and a malicious friend. A Mummer's Tale The same proved to be the case in West Africa, where the Ashanti is officially described as 'crafty, persistent, mendacious, and treacherous.' To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Our present culture is based on an emasculated and mendacious study of antiquity. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 He and Rand exchanged mendacious compliments, pledged close cooperation, and did practically everything but draw up and sign a treaty of alliance. Murder in the Gunroom History was fabulous; poetry mendacious and philosophy erroneous. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 Their paltry imitations, their miserable brayings, their misquotations from Shakspeare, their mendacious accounts of interviews with the "Boy," will be enough to drive you mad. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The constable turned pale, shivered all over, and swayed about in his chair, almost frightening the mendacious Yankee by the sight of the mischief his words had wrought. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The signification of the studies of antiquity hitherto pursued: obscure; mendacious. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 I am fond of my old cricketer, in spite of a certain mendacious and malign element in him. Certain Personal Matters In respect to literature, nothing can be more mendacious than to say there are restraints upon literature. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II It echoed the phrases that Searle himself had employed so persistently, many of them grossly mendacious, as Beth was sufficiently aware. The Furnace of Gold "I'm awfully sorry," said the mendacious lawyer, "but it was the coat and collar, you know." Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life And then a prating, mendacious local schoolmaster began comparing these villains to the patriotic Dutch who flooded their land rather than permit it to be conquered by the national foe. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent The mendacious Press talked much about a "dishonourable peace," as though any peace could be as dishonourable as a prolonged war. Combed Out As to this Government, I only entreat you not to believe any of the mendacious reports set afloat here by a most unworthy Opposition, and carried out by the English 'Athenæum' and other prints. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II These mendacious patriots found little difficulty in palming their false tale upon the simple Halicarnassian, thereby at once extending the antiquity of their empire and concealing its shame behind a halo of fictitious glory. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Wishing to be polite, he entered, in spite of the artistic disgust he felt for all that zinc, coloured to imitate bronze, and having all the repulsive mendacious prettiness of spurious art. His Masterpiece Note, however—for in this matter it is essential to make one's meaning perfectly clear—I do not allege, or suppose, that the assurances of the Irish leaders are mendacious. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Heaven assisted at the same time in behalf of the mission by sending abundant rain, thus leaving the superstition of the heathens confounded and mendacious, and the king despicable for this persecution. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century And if the assurances he gave her were essentially mendacious, he himself wasn't exactly aware that they were. The Real Adventure After all, it is not absolutely mendacious, like a War Office telegram. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate That bold, bad man—that accomplished hypocrite—that mendacious, would-be murderer was no more. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Old Juvenal calls the Greeks a mendacious set of fabulists, for recording that Xerxes made a canal through the isthmus to the north of Mount Athos. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 And yet I could not forbear, once or twice, from wondering if he saw through me down to the bottom of my mendacious heart. The Road "An' for good reason," declared the mendacious storekeeper. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper That the explanation given by the British Government for making war against Germany was stupid, hypocritical, mendacious, and disgraceful. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements—mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing. Aftermath Is not the most mendacious mistress often taken with the desire of confession ... the wish to reveal herself? Evelyn Innes Whereto the mendacious Venetian answered readily:—"The crane, Sir, has but one thigh and one leg." The Decameron, Volume II The following dialogue is a specimen of the talents of the aforementioned mendacious personages. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 As long as we have that state of things, we shall have wars and secret and mendacious diplomacy. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Digesting my disgust as best I could, I lighted my cheroot with the mendacious foolscap and blushed for my species. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 An impulsive friend had taken an apartment for them in the Rue de Grenelle, facing east, and in all that concerned comfort splendidly mendacious. Robert Browning A work entitled Three Weeks in the Gold Mines, written by a mendacious individual who signed himself H.I. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado The red-nosed comedian began by making a joke concerning his mother-in-law, and another concerning mendacious statements to his wife to explain his nocturnal absences from home, and another concerning his intoxicated condition. The Roll-Call We hear much of Treitschke today—no doubt a man of genius with a gift for research—but what ferocious pyrotechnics were poured forth by this apostle of mendacious swagger. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Weems has been held up to the present age in various ways, usually, it must be confessed, of an unflattering nature, and "mendacious" is the adjective most commonly applied to him. George Washington, Volume I But this difficulty is by no means to be ascribed to what Mr. Hülsemann calls, with little justice, as it seems to the undersigned, "the mendacious rumors propagated by the American press." The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style From this crude statement of a signal fact, the thoughtless reader will at once judge me rapacious, egoistical, false, fawning, mendacious. Confessions of a Young Man Too much wine—though it must have required an inordinate quantity in certain mendacious periods—was regarded as provocative of truth; and too many books as clearly put bats in a man's belfry. By Advice of Counsel The whole German press and the entire academic class seem to be banded together as an official bureau in order to spread mendacious insults and spiteful slanders. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index We may not hold sheer force in honor; but open force is better than mendacious weakness, and less debasing for a government as well as for a people. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 There is only one mendacious creature in the world—man. Essays of Schopenhauer Like other collectors he will beg, borrow, or steal to improve his store, and life is made a burden by the perpetual writing and reading of these mendacious documents. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil From this crude statement of a signal fact, the thoughtless reader will at once judge me rapacious, egotistical, false, fawning, mendacious. Confessions of a Young Man And she followed it with the everlasting plaint of the poor, pathetically mendacious, miserably authenticated by the horrible breath of cheap rum and soap-suds. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale There was something impressive about his way of repelling callers; it was as effectual as a door slammed in the face, and yet there was a sort of mendacious courtesy about it. The Village Watch-Tower “I am an old man and fear not death,” answered Babalatchi, with a mendacious assumption of indifference. Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Can you believe, on the unsupported testimony of this mendacious mountebank, that Father Ryan's tribute to the Stars-and-Bars was rank hypocrisy —that the poet-priest was the political tool of a foreign power? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 But this was after the tragicomic culmination had been reached, and the burnt rags of one of these too-frequently mendacious signals gone on a progress to Washington, like Cæsar’s body, arousing indignation where it came. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa The truth, as I have said, lies hidden in this extraordinarily mendacious confection. She Stands Accused The fictitious version of the massacre of the envoys of Pekin was mendacious, but it was not interesting, except to those who had private reasons for terror or sorrow. Heretics He knew the histories and biographies that are most amusing and least shallow and mendacious. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. Lay Morals Mildred had become great friends with her and had given her an elaborate but mendacious account of the circumstances which had brought her to the pass she was in. Of Human Bondage "Yes—what the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male line—that is, gone down—gone under." Tess of the d'Urbervilles Most of them include the mendacious narrative of the pretended descent of the Mississippi. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 To the silver faction, their opponents were "mendacious hirelings" and "Gilded Shylocks." The United States Since the Civil War I drew a long breath and continued on my mendacious career. An Amiable Charlatan "Oh, you naughty boy, you naughty, mendacious boy!" said a sprightly voice in Tressady's ear. Sir George Tressady — Volume I I think there was an eighteenth-century flavour about it,—for it smacked, somehow, of a patched, mendacious, dainty womanhood, and its artfulness was of a gallant sort that scorned to deceive. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Party journalism in the Province of Quebec is peculiarly bitter and mendacious. The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy The Republicans asserted that the request was a challenge to the motives and fidelity of their party, and a partisan and mendacious accusation. The United States Since the Civil War Never before or since has poet been blessed with such a teacher, as rich and laughterful, as mendacious and corrupting as life itself. The Man Shakespeare But do you go your ways, none the less, for April is waiting for you yonder,—beautiful, mendacious, splendid April. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes "I hope, sir, you do not mean me to infer that you are mendacious?" the old gentleman sternly rejoined. The Heavenly Twins A Boston merchant whose word had been as good as his note for thirty years was gibbetted soon after his death by a high-minded journalist, as the type of mendacious duplicity. Sketches from Concord and Appledore She stood awhile and digested this mendacious invention and seemed to be irresolute in her summing up of my person. Hunger His whole attitude was mendacious and mean, and the wretched pretext under which he declared war could not but prejudice Europe against him. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth While the comparison was mendacious, we can understand the desire of the conqueror to magnify his exploits. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Very spiritual people could, she reflected, become strangely mendacious when borne along on the wings of ardor and exaltation. A Fountain Sealed Reuben—the mendacious Reuben—had done very well with his summer stock—very well indeed. The History of David Grieve Certainly; but even in jest—if I may be allowed the expression—one does not take the statement that an honourable man has voluntarily offered and treat it as a mendacious document. Three Dramas None but the grossest elements in a people can withstand enduring misrule; none but a mendacious and servile nature will survive its wear and tear. Old Calabria The two letters fell into the hands of Las Torres, and so artfully had the capture been contrived, that it never occurred to him to doubt the truth of these mendacious documents. The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain "No weak spot will you find, señor," said Antonio the mendacious, who was certainly the greatest of the three sinners met together in that place. The Purple Land He is nebulo nebulonum, an impudent, fraudulent, mendacious quack, that has cost me a hundred pounds by his roguery, and my neighbour Sir Arthur, God knows how much. The Antiquary — Volume 02 There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. But never has that delusion been proclaimed in a more mendacious and impudent manner than by the demagogues of the Jetstzeit—of the day we live in. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature To my profound relief, the influx of patients ceased, and the practice sank into its accustomed torpor; whereby I was able, without base and mendacious subterfuge, to escape in good time to my tryst. The Vanishing Man The only discount from the Union's winnings is that it gave mendacious M.P.'s, anxious to back out of woman suffrage, a soft bed to lie on. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Everybody had eventually accepted that narrative as being accurate, but Mathieu now felt that it was mendacious. Fruitfulness The height of mendacious talent is shown in representing this paragon of virtue to be a brawler, a blackguard, a swindler, an infidel, and a bad husband and father. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 Shady, behead, and lying are "popular" words, while their synonyms umbrageous decapitate,_ and mendacious are "learned" words. The Century Vocabulary Builder The blatant medium of advertising has become so mendacious as to defeat its own purpose. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution On the other hand, his enemies diagnose him after the manner of Lombroso, and find him to be a degenerate and an epileptic, ungovernably irritable, vain, mendacious, arrogant, sometimes quite irresponsible for his actions. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) He would have liked to answer them; he would have liked to triumph over the mendacious theories which they still dared to assert even in their hour of defeat. Fruitfulness It was the age of adventurers, from the mendacious Casanova to the mysterious Saint-Germain, from the Chevalier d’Eon to Charles Edward Stuart. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Art sets the truth free from the illusory and mendacious forms of this coarse, imperfect world, and clothes it in a nobler, purer form created by the mind itself. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller This mendacious medico declared that no living thing could exist within fifteen miles of the tree. Here, There and Everywhere As for sewer-gas, we may yet live to see it manufactured artificially for the improvement of the public health, and conveyed to our overcrowded drawing-rooms with all the paraphernalia of pipes and the mendacious meter. Without Prejudice On the morning after the evening when she had heard Claire close her door behind Florent, she spun out her story for a good half hour, inventing all sorts of mendacious and abominable particulars. The Fat and the Thin "Of course you didn't, you promised it to me," said Van Reypen, equally mendacious. Patty's Suitors "Of a certain steak pasty that was promised for my supper," I answered immediately, mendacious. The Broad Highway Experience can never deceive, it may be incomplete, but never mendacious. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Vainer still the bid for immortality, when one's own hand raises the mendacious memorial. Without Prejudice The speaker's teeth played an accompaniment to this mendacious denial. The Winds of Chance We stoutly contend that that worthy personage Epicurus has been shamefully misrepresented by abstemious, and hence envious and mendacious, historians. The Fiend's Delight Summon the twenty drops of blood that trickle round thy lank and withered frame and let them mount to thy mendacious cheek! Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts He might have been an adventurer, a Captain of Kopenick of the day, who had poured a gallant but mendacious tale into her ears. Simon the Jester He did so; and, to save comments, yet enable the reader to appreciate his explanation, the true part of it is printed in italics, the mendacious portion in ordinary type. A Woman-Hater You swore eternal love to me at that time, but you did so as a mendacious Bavarian; I did not believe you, and knew full well that you had no honest intentions toward me. Andreas Hofer You must n't be surprised to find him reticent, not to say mendacious, respecting details which he may regard as humiliating. Such Is Life I. You are morally truthful: but intellectually mendacious. Hard Cash All I can say," I murmured, by way of apology, "is that it's a mendacious world. Simon the Jester And Bastien, to confirm his mendacious statement, keeps wriggling his forefinger at the top of the tube, while his fellow-conspirators suppress their enjoyment as best they can. The Mason-Bees No more mendacious, more malignant or more impious lampoon was ever penned. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The mendacious captain was perfectly well aware that an affair of honor always makes a man stand well in the eyes of a woman. Notre-Dame De Paris The rascal could not resist this last mendacious opportunity, although he was perfectly sincere in his renunciation, touched in his sympathy, and there was even a film of moisture in his shifting eyes. Susy, a story of the Plains "My watch was twenty minutes fast, and I had given him up," said Brimmer, with mendacious effrontery. The Crusade of the Excelsior She cares for you only as some one to band teacups in that horrible mendacious little parlour of hers, with its trumpery Peruginos! The Madonna of the Future |
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