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Marked by lying or intentional falsehood.
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- mendacious account
- mendacious witness
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The mendacious account contradicted the records.
A mendacious witness invented the meeting.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more mendacious; superlative most mendacious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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