mendacities
Spoken untruths, plural
Mendacities are lies or falsehoods, the plural of mendacity.
The word carries a formal, even literary tone—you're more likely to encounter it in essays or courtroom rhetoric than casual speech: The witness's mendacities unraveled under cross-examination.
Unlike simple lies, mendacities often suggests a pattern of dishonesty rather than a single untruth.
Deliberate untruths
- untruthsAssertions contrary to fact
- fabricationsInvented untrue statements
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- whoppersOutlandish untruths
prevarications · misrepresentations · falsities · canards · distortions · inventions · fictions · myths
Deliberate misleading of others
- duplicityDeliberate misleading behavior
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
chicanery · artifice · manipulation · fraud · imposture · pretense · dissembling · cunning
Disposition toward false statements
- insincerityLack of genuine feeling
- fraudulenceIntentional deception for gain
- deceitfulnessDisposition to mislead
- falsenessAbsence of truth
hypocrisy · bad faith · two-facedness · disingenuousness · crookedness · corruption · knavery · double-dealing
lies
Deliberate untruths
- untruthsAssertions contrary to fact
- fabricationsInvented untrue statements
- fibsPetty falsehoods
whoppers · prevarications · misrepresentations · falsities · canards · distortions · inventions · fictions · myths · tales
deceit
Deliberate misleading of others
- duplicityDeliberate misleading behavior
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
trickery · chicanery · artifice · manipulation · fraud · imposture · pretense · dissembling · cunning · sophistry
untruthfulness
Disposition toward false statements
- insincerityLack of genuine feeling
- fraudulenceIntentional deception for gain
- deceitfulnessDisposition to mislead
falseness · hypocrisy · bad faith · two-facedness · disingenuousness · crookedness · corruption · knavery · double-dealing
mendacitiestruths
Accurate statements about reality
veracities · honesties · verities · facts · accuracies
mendacitiesintegrities
Conditions of moral completeness
forthrightness · uprightness · straight dealing · plainspokenness · guilelessness
mendacitieshonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
truthfulness · veracity · integrity · candor · forthrightness