mendacity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.

   “[…] Treating the assertion of the witness as the effect, he [Pierre-Simon Laplace] considers as its two possible causes, the veracity or mendacity of the witness on the particular occasion, that is, the truth or falsity of the fact.”

2. isim A deceit, falsehood, or lie.

   “The scandalous bronze-lacker age, of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotencies and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the Pit swallow it.”