mendacious
Definition: Lying; false
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The Heavenly Twins - By Sarah Grand
...I hope, sir, you do not mean me to infer that you are mendacious ? "...
A Vanished Arcadia - By R. B. Cunninghame Graham
...The brief mendacious chronicle leaves him on the throne, just after having joined the empire of the Mama-lucos to that of Paraguay, and promising to give the world more of his history when it comes to hand ....
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...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 ....
The Road - By Jack London
...or twice, from wondering if he saw through me down to the bottom of my mendacious heart ....
Heroines of Fiction - By William Dean Howells
...The trouble is not so much that she is malevolent as that she is mendacious, but still she is mischievous, and likes to stick pins into people, for the pleasure of seeing them wince ....
Literary chapters - By Walter Lionel George
...Divines whose sermons do not fetch five cents at the second-hand bookseller 's, promoters of economic theories long disproved, partisan historians, mendacious travellers--they crowd out of the `` books that count " the pale sixty-three novelists, all that is left of the large assembly that gave us `` Tom Jones " and `` The Way of All Flesh . "...
Literary Likings - By Richard Burton
...and in that other study of the Provence type, Numa Roumestan, whose protagonist is a brilliantly mendacious creature full of tergiversation and tricky finesse, certainly the after-taste is not agreeable, though few modern fictions can equal it for truth and force ....
Homo Sapiens - By Stanisław Przybyszewski, Thomas Seltzer
...-- Evidently my mendacious soul was going to argue thus : " It 's not so bad as it seems--It 'll all come out right in the end . "...
Confessions of a Young Man - By George Moore
...From this crude statement of a signal fact, the thoughtless reader will at once judge me rapacious, egoistical, false, fawning, mendacious ....
A Duet - By Arthur Conan Doyle
..." My dear boy, " said this mendacious epistle, " my head is still rather bad, and Dr. Jordan thought that it would be wiser if I were to have an undisturbed rest, but I will send down to you when I feel better ....
The Roll-call - By Arnold Bennett
...sr-d comedian began bv 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 Technique of Thomas Hardy - By Joseph Warren Beach
...But he was throughout the prime mover of his own fate, and he had fairly to reckon with the results of his own violent, jealous, and mendacious behavior ....
The Village Watch-tower - By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
...action to the mendacious word, took a good handkerchief from her pocket and tore it in three strips, after spreading it with tallow from a candle heated over the stove ....