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MENDACITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency to be untruthful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mendacity" is a kind of...):
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Antonym:
veracity (unwillingness to tell lies)
Derivation:
mendacious (given to lying)
mendacious (intentionally untrue)
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