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)

(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
(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

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