English-Thai Dictionary

mendacity

N การ โกหก  lying falsification deceitfulness kan-ko-hok

 

mendacity

N การ โกหก  lying falsification kan-ko-hok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MENDACITY

n.[L. mendax, false, lying. ] Falsehood. [The proper signification of this word would be a disposition to lie, or habitual lying. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MENDACITY

Men *dac "i *ty, n.; pl. Mendacities. Etym: [L. mendacitas.]

 

1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.

 

2. A falsehood; a lie. Sir T. Browne.

 

Syn. -- Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mendacity

men dac i ty |menˈdasitē mɛnˈdæsədi | ▶noun untruthfulness: people publicly castigated for past mendacity. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from mendax, mendac- ‘lying ’ (see mendacious ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

mendacity

men |da ¦city |mɛnˈdasəti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] untruthfulness: people publicly castigated for past mendacity. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from mendax, mendac- ‘lying ’ (see mendacious ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mendacity

mendacity noun lying, untruthfulness, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, dissembling, insincerity, disingenuousness, hypocrisy, fraud, fraudulence, double-dealing, two-timing, duplicity, perjury, perfidy; untruth, fictitiousness, falsity, falsehood, falseness, fallaciousness, hollowness; informal kidology; Irish informal codology; humorous economy with the truth, terminological inexactitude; rare unveracity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mendacity

men dac i ty /mendǽsəti /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠偽り, 虚偽, 正直でないこと .