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Word For The Day: MENDACIOUS
Merriam-Webster ^ | August 25,2015

Posted on 08/25/2015 6:51:00 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

mendacious

\men-ˈdā-shəs\

hear it pronounced

adjective

: given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth — men·da·cious·ly adverb — men·da·cious·ness noun

Origin of MENDACIOUS Latin mendac-, mendax — more at amend First Known Use: 1616 Related to MENDACIOUS

Synonyms lying, dishonest, untruthful

Antonyms honest, truthful, veracious

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.




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To: SoothingDave

That article looks a bit odd, I agree. But I am serious, I am hearing these kinds of things from Catholics, evangelicals etc. alike.


21 posted on 08/26/2015 5:51:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell

Trump’s comments are audacious
But at least he entertains us
A carney
Spouting blarney
Of which a lot is pretty mendacious


22 posted on 08/26/2015 6:04:51 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Bill or Hill: Which one is more mendacious?
Both are liars, prodigious, bodacious
Each can parse and deflect
But I’ve come to suspect
She’s fallacious while he is fellatious


23 posted on 08/26/2015 6:05:29 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: xsmommy
well you have your fishing tackle and that will feed your family, so you are lucky there!

Yeah, if I didn't suck so bad at fishing. LOL! Well at least I can get some free tuna! tunalawsuit.com

24 posted on 08/26/2015 6:11:54 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: NicknamedBob
Funny words, a children's rhyme. Perfect. First Place
25 posted on 08/26/2015 6:19:40 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: hoosiermama
Say it isn't so.Third Place
26 posted on 08/26/2015 6:21:55 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Here is what some of the great writers and philosophers of our time have said about the act and art of lying.

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” — Winston Churchill

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this —
One of you is lying.”
— Dorothy Parker

“Falsehood is worse in kings than beggars.” — William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“How subject we old men are to this vice of lying.” — William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” — Alfred Tennyson

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.” — Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying

“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.” — Oscar Wilde

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.” — Oscar Wilde


27 posted on 08/26/2015 6:31:41 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xsmommy

You’d think he’d donate them to some church/charity that would put them to good use.


28 posted on 08/26/2015 6:33:03 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

I think it demonstrates insecurity about faith and how his faith or lack thereof will be perceived. he has done the same thing in talking about his book, and how that wasn’t his MOST fave book, but rather THE BIBLE was his fave book, etc. Listening to that, you just know he is pandering with that, from the faith angle.


29 posted on 08/26/2015 6:37:56 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Gamecock
One of my favorites.satire award


30 posted on 08/26/2015 6:40:51 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: MarineMom613
Very likely true. It certainly is the most unAmerican. Second place
31 posted on 08/26/2015 6:42:01 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: left that other site
We need an ode to Big Daddy. Cap obv
32 posted on 08/26/2015 6:43:15 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
When every word is meritless, Obama is in the room. Nice. Pearls of Wisdom Award:


33 posted on 08/26/2015 6:44:47 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: SoothingDave
just awful. unbelievable what things are coming to in the world.
34 posted on 08/26/2015 6:55:13 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Honorary Serb
We can depend on a few: DRUDGE, FR, FP and a few others. The gap is widening between truth tellers and propaganda diktats.
35 posted on 08/26/2015 6:58:33 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I believe they perfected the art form. It was invented in the Garden with Eve.

miss piggy

36 posted on 08/26/2015 7:00:13 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: rarestia
Amen and amen, FReeper.
37 posted on 08/26/2015 7:02:11 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice
Yeah verily. When your standard for courage is a guy putting on makeup and a dress, pretending to be a gal, all is lost.


38 posted on 08/26/2015 7:07:17 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: xsmommy
We will survive, and be reunited before the end.
39 posted on 08/26/2015 7:21:25 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: dblshot
Mendacity is as mendacity does. I have not caught Trump lying. Saying contradictory things at different times, maybe, but not lying, yet.

Nevertheless:

limerick award

40 posted on 08/26/2015 7:24:50 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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