mendacity
mendacity 英 [menˈdæsəti] 美 [mɛnˈdæsɪti]
n. 谎言；虚伪；撒谎癖
名词复数:mendacities
- Mendacity is a tendency to lie. Your friend might swear that he didn't eat your secret chocolate stash, but you'll find it hard to believe him if he's known for his mendacity.
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- n. 谎言；虚伪；撒谎癖
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1. The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。
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2. Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family.
失态的自我揭露，难以置信的背叛，不可避免的谎言，加上少许虚华：回忆录，在其短短的历史中，向来是文学家族里的害群之马。
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3. So dogs may be able to sniff out bombs. But they can’t pick up the smell of mendacity.
所以，狗或许能够嗅出炸弹，却嗅不出谎言。
- mendacity (n.) "tendency to lie," 1640s, from Middle French mendacité and directly from Late Latin mendacitas "falsehood, mendacity," from Latin mendax "lying; a liar" (see mendacious).
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