Mendacity (noun)
men-das-i-tee
Untruthfulness.
Mid 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin mendacitas, from mendax, mendac- ‘lying’ (see mendacious).
Example sentences
“It’s pure mendacity and poor excuses!”
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