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Mendacity is the noun: the quality, or the practice, of not being truthful. If you talk about the mendacity of a report, you mean the report is full of , not that one line was a slip. Everyday speech says lying or . This word makes the lying sound like a character trait or a public failing — something you name in a serious voice. You will meet it in essays, , and law more than in talk between friends.
不誠實；謊言（指那種習性或做法）
組成From Latin mendāx（愛說謊的）+ a suffix that makes a noun for a state (-ity). So: the state of being untruthful. (The older Latin family behind mendāx is argued over; do not chase it.)
同家族的字
- mendaciousthe adjective
- mendaciouslythe adverb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mendacitynoun/mɛnˈdæsəti/
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The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
- Mendacity is not a uniform offence: it changes its colour according to the nature and substance of the offence to which it is rendered or endeavoured to be rendered subservient. Mendacity, employed in drawing down upon an innocent head the destroying sword of justice, is murder: murder, encompassed with all its correspondent terror. Mendacity, employed in the obtainment of money, is but depredation. Yet, while predatory mendacity is punished with death, the punishment for the murderous mendacity is in comparison but a flea-bite.
- […] Treating the assertion of the witness as the effect, he [Pierre-Simon Laplace] considers as its two possible causes, the veracity or mendacity of the witness on the particular occasion, that is, the truth or falsity of the fact.
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A deceit, falsehood, or lie.
- The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it.
- Though the rebels had utterly failed in their purposes, having accomplished nothing but the temporary disabling of two lightly armed vessels, and had retreated before the approach of the only formidable vessel there, they formally, and with a mendacity equalled only by some of their own efforts in that direction, proclaimed that they had "driven out of sight, for a time, the entire hostile fleet," and that the blockade of the port of Charleston was raised.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。