The supposition that this snake prefers a file to any other species of nourishment is a vulgar error, and belongs to the same mendacious category as the stories that ostriches are fond of ten-penny nails and soldiers of hard tack.
Like other collectors he will beg, borrow, or steal to improve his store, and life is made a burden by the perpetual writing and reading of these mendacious documents.
These falsehoods, conveyed by implication, were uttered in such a tone of assurance, that the young woman was evidently dazzled by their splendour; and she threw a rapid, but encouraging glance towards the mendacious Frank.
But a term must at length arrive to those specious representations and mendacious assurances adopted by Sir Henry Courtenay to lull the agonising feelings of the unhappy girl;—and then—oh!
Captain, who had by this time fully seen through the mendacious braggadocio of Mr. Frank Curtis, and had come to the conclusion that he was as great a coward in reality as his uncle.
Nothing remained for me but to pay my mendacious Malay half the number of florins he demanded and follow my new guide.
Art sets the truth free from the illusory and mendacious forms of this coarse, imperfect world, and clothes it in a nobler, purer form created by the mind itself.
Reason has purified itself from the illusions of the senses and from a mendacious sophistry, and philosophy herself raises her voice and exhorts us to return to the bosom of nature, to which she had first made us unfaithful.
Aphorism 21: "Maxim--to associate with no man who takes any part in themendacious race-swindle.
The whole German press and the entire academic class seem to be banded together as an official bureau in order to spread mendacious insults and spiteful slanders.
We hear much of Treitschke today--no doubt a man of genius with a gift for research--but what ferocious pyrotechnics were poured forth by this apostle of mendacious swagger.
As long as we have that state of things, we shall have wars and secret and mendacious diplomacy.
I could not even imitate his own mendacious candour lest I should give him and myself completely away.
What musty and mendacious file in Somerset House dare produce a record to show that a man who was obviously so many years younger had been born in the year 1875?
It is much more likely that he himself fabricated this mendacious nonsense about feathers and soot, being unable even in his evidence to divorce himself further from his kitchen.
The conflicting accounts of uninformed, unconsciously biased, or willfully mendacious writers have shrouded in obscurity the clear and intelligible relation which can be given of the battle of York.
Colonel's compliments, sir," announced the mendacious private, in an assumed tone.
Ralph smiled when he read the mendacious German official report.
Before first speaking of his project for helping his people, he had trembled at the risk he was about to incur; how then could he now learn with equanimity that a cruelly mendacious representation of it was being made to Artaxerxes?
If he would lend himself to their mendacious methods, he might turn them round his finger.
Yet, for all this mendacious and vainglorious boasting, Collins was a man of unquestionable ability, and when fully aroused could write a paragraph well calculated to make the ears of his enemies to tingle.
There is only one mendaciousbeing in the world, and that is man.
Parthis mendacior=--More mendacious than the Parthians.
The historian of this expedition was a mendacious Recollet friar, Father Louis Hennepin, a name which has attained some notoriety in early Canadian annals.
To the skill of the mendacious priest we are indebted for the first verbal description of the falls by an eye-witness, as well as for the first artistic delineation of them.
There was something impressive about his way of repelling callers; it was as effectual as a door slammed in the face, and yet there was a sort of mendacious courtesy about it.
Its mendacious slanders were aimed at the most prominent and virtuous of Nauvoo's citizens.
At the same time, I nourished in my breast a lively desire that my mistress might be innocent, and that the accusation of so base a fault might be proved a vile mendacious calumny.
The history of Ireland has been so perverted by mendacious faction that the truth lies deeply interred.
A veritable army had landed at Killala under false colours, flying a mendacious Union Jack: veterans to the number of twelve hundred, who had fought in Italy under Napoleon.
Even a speech worded obscurely because the matter is obscure, or because the listener would be harmed by plainer speech (see 1001), is not mendacious but prudent.
Hence, a preacher sins gravely if the substance of his pulpit teaching is mendacious (e.
An author so conspicuously mendacious as he who wrote the Apology for English consumption is unworthy of belief on any point.
He lived to be elected Master of University College nine years later, and to be themendacious champion of the antiquity of Oxford against the Cambridge advocate.
Caius, equallymendacious but more reputable, the pious 'second founder' of a great Cambridge college.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mendacious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
