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• s  given to lying
  a mendacious child
• s  intentionally untrue
  a mendacious statement

• The warlord's accusations are mendacious and are only being made to divert attention from the human rights violations.
• The CFO style maybe lush but he cannot be mendacious nor can he dither on the agreed clauses.
• In one excerpt cited in the book, Trink describes the women as "meretricious, avaricious, mendacious and bone lazy.

News & Articles

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• The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency
  His tone on Friday was inappropriately dismissive, while the substance was misleading at best and mendacious at worst.        
  Aug. 12, 2013 - The Atlantic

Quotes

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• Ben Bradshaw in BBC News
  Mr Bradshaw added he was not surprised the BMA's petition had attracted so many signatures given the "misleading and mendacious" nature of its campaign.
• Tendai Biti in Zimbabwe Times
  In this regard, it is critical that wise counsel should prevail and these talks should be allowed to run their natural course,Biti said. "History will judge harshly those who were insincere, mendacious or negotiated with other agendas...
• Andrew Rawnsley in New York Times
  ...is the word most often used to describe him, but that is on the mild end of an adjectival spectrum that includes tortured, angry, gauche, uncomfortable, volatile and "routinely roasted in the media as a semi-autistic, mendacious...