Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
given to lying;
- Example: "a mendacious child"2.
intentionally untrue;
- Example: "a mendacious statement"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mendacious \Men*da"cious\, a. [L. mendax, -acis, lying, cf.
mentiri to lie.]
1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious
person.
[1913 Webster]
2. False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious
statement.
[1913 Webster] -- Men*da"cious*ly, adv. --
Men*da"cious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mendacious
adj 1: given to lying; "a mendacious child"
2: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "mendacious":
deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous,
fallacious, false, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering,
perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless,
untruthful, unveracious, wrong
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.