mendacious

mendacious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)

1. (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
2. (of a statement, etc) False or untrue.

Translations

lying, untruthful or dishonest

Afrikaans: leunagtig, oneerlik, liegend Armenian: ստախոս (hy) (staxos), սուտասան (hy) (sutasan) Chinese: Mandarin: 說謊的 (zh), 说谎的 (zh) (shuōhuǎng de) Czech: prolhaný Dutch: leugenachtig (nl), oneerlijk (nl), liegend (nl) Finnish: valheellinen (fi) French: fallacieux (fr), mensonger (fr) Georgian: ცრუ (cru) German: lügnerisch (de), verlogen (de) Greek: αναληθής (el) (analithís) Ancient: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos) Hebrew: שקרן‎, לא ישר‎

Hungarian: hazug (hu), hazudozó Italian: mendace (it) Japanese: 虚偽の (ja) (きょぎの, kyogi no), 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki) Latin: mendax Portuguese: mentiroso (pt) Romanian: mincinos (ro) Russian: лжи́вый (ru) (lžívyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ла̀жљив Roman: làžljiv (sh) Spanish: mentiroso (es), embustero (es) m Swedish: lögnaktig (sv), förljugen (sv) Ukrainian: брехли́вий (uk) (brexlývyj)

false — see false