Today’s “Word of the Day” is mendacity and it is a noun meaning “the quality or condition of being untruthful, a tendency to lie; untruthfulness, dishonesty, lying, deceit, falsehood, untruth“.
Example Sentence: There are lies, there are damned lies – and then there was this week’s Republican national convention: a four-day cavalcade (procession/march) of brazen falsehoods from the president and his enablers. Wild distortions and exaggerations are hardly new to politics. But Donald Trump’s mendacity is in a class of its own, as his closing speech on Thursday underscored.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Trump’s convention speech: the unwitting truth amid lies and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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