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mendacious

ADJ โกหก  lying untrue false dishonest ko-hok

 

mendaciously

ADV อย่าง โกหก  falsely yang-ko-hok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MENDACIOUS

a.[L. mendax.] Lying; false. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MENDACIOUS

Men *da "cious, a. Etym: [L. mendax, -acis, lying, cf. mentiri to lie. ]

 

1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

 

2. False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement. -- Men *da "cious *ly, adv. -- Men *da "cious *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mendacious

men da cious |menˈdāSHəs mɛnˈdeɪʃəs | adjective not telling the truth; lying: mendacious propaganda. DERIVATIVES men da cious ly adverb, men da cious ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin mendax, mendac- lying (related to mendum fault ) + -ious .

 

Oxford Dictionary

mendacious

mendacious |mɛnˈdeɪʃəs | adjective not telling the truth; lying: mendacious propaganda. DERIVATIVES mendaciously adverb ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin mendax, mendac- lying (related to mendum fault ) + -ious .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mendacious

mendacious adjective politicians and their mendacious spin doctors: lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, fraudulent, double-dealing, two-faced, two-timing, duplicitous, perjured; untrue, fictitious, falsified, fabricated, fallacious, invented, made up; informal full of crap; literary perfidious. ANTONYMS truthful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mendacious

mendacious adjective mendacious propaganda: lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, fraudulent, double-dealing, two-faced, two-timing, duplicitous, perjured, perfidious; untrue, fictitious, falsified, fabricated, fallacious, invented, made up, hollow; humorous economical with the truth, terminologically inexact; rare unveracious. ANTONYMS truthful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mendacious

men da cious /mendéɪʃəs /形容詞 かたく 真実でない, 偽りの .ly 副詞