Crossword-Solution: MENDACITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mendacity | n. | The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. |
| Mendacity | n. | A falsehood; a lie. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MENDACITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Repair Chicago's slums? | 1 answer |
| mendax | 1 answer |
| entrapment | 11 answers |
| falsity | 26 answers |
| Monkey business | 38 answers |
| fiction | 49 answers |
| Fib | 49 answers |
| CONFIDENCE game | 54 answers |
| Manoeuvre | 59 answers |
| untruthfulness | 59 answers |
| Untruth | 65 answers |
| Lying | 75 answers |
| Lie | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAECME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MENDACITY (5)
She smiled at everything in life, especially the things she did n’t like and which kept her talent for mendacity in healthy exercise.
But, while all the world half inclines to this agreeable mendacity about life, only in America of all civilization is the mendacity accepted as gospel, and suspicion about it frowned upon as the heresy of cynicism.
You may have wildly false messages suddenly interpolated among truthful ones--messages so detailed in their mendacity that it is impossible to think that they are not deliberately false.
The weak spot in Holmes' armour as an enemy of society was a dangerous tendency to loquacity, the defect no doubt of his qualities of plausible and insinuating address and ever ready mendacity.
The contents of these precious vials are an interesting relic indeed, for they represent to us vividly that period when men who were willing to go to the stake for their religious opinions thought it not wrong to save the souls of their fellowmen by pious mendacity and consecrated fraud.
Quotes with MENDACITY (3)
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
While watching the current state of America, I have concluded we should welcome the truth no matter how it arrives and justice no matter who or what it affects. When we don't, we become a vessel of mendacity and hypocrisy.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1972–1987).