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Word of the Day (mendacity)-30AUG20

Word of the Day (mendacity)-30AUG20

Today’s “Word of the Day” is mendacity and it is a noun meaning “the quality or condition of being untruthful, a tendency to lie; untruthfulness, dishonesty, lying, deceit, falsehood, untruth“.

Example Sentence: There are lies, there are damned lies – and then there was this week’s Republican national convention: a four-day cavalcade (procession/march) of brazen falsehoods from the president and his enablers. Wild distortions and exaggerations are hardly new to politics. But Donald Trump’s mendacity is in a class of its own, as his closing speech on Thursday underscored.

This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Trump’s convention speech: the unwitting truth amid lies and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Guardian

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