mendacious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)

1. (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
2. (of a statement, etc) False or untrue.

Translations

lying, untruthful or dishonest

• Afrikaans: leunagtig, oneerlik, liegend
• Arabic: كَاذِب‎ (kāḏib)
• Armenian: ստախոս (hy) (staxos), սուտասան (hy) (sutasan)
• Bulgarian: лъжлив (bg) (lǎžliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 說謊的／说谎的 (zh) (shuōhuǎng de)

• Czech: prolhaný
• Dutch: leugenachtig (nl), oneerlijk (nl), liegend (nl)
• Finnish: valheellinen (fi)
• French: fallacieux (fr), mensonger (fr), trompeur (fr) m
• Georgian: ცრუ (cru)
• German: lügnerisch (de), verlogen (de), unwahr (de)
• Greek: αναληθής (el) (analithís)

  Ancient: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos)

• Hebrew: שקרן‎, לא ישר‎
• Hungarian: hazug (hu), hazudozó (hu)
• Italian: mendace (it), menzognero (it) m, bugiardo (it) m
• Japanese: 虚偽の (ja) (きょぎの, kyogi no), 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
• Latin: mendax (la)
• Portuguese: mentiroso (pt), mendaz (pt)
• Romanian: mincinos (ro)
• Russian: лжи́вый (ru) (lžívyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ла̀жљив

  Roman: làžljiv (sh)

• Spanish: mentiroso (es), embustero (es), mendaz (es)
• Swedish: lögnaktig (sv), förljugen (sv)
• Ukrainian: брехли́вий (uk) (brexlývyj)

false — see false