Mendacious (adj)
men-day-shus
Untruthful; lying
Today’s word is for our politicians here in the UK right now who have dragged us into an awful mess based on mendacious propaganda.
Example sentences
“The whole campaign was built on mendacious propaganda.”
“Are you really suggesting that mendacious toerag as leader?”
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