My wife is mendacious for dating another man behind my back.
Source: tatoeba (4408650)
Mendacious
//mɛnˈdeɪʃəs//
Synonyms for "mendacious" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesderived
3 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 30 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- leunagtig adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- liegend adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- oneerlik adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ψευδολόγος adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Arabic
1 entries- كَاذِب adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Armenian
2 entries- սուտասան adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- ստախոս adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лъжлив adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Catalan
1 entries- mentider adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 說謊的 /说谎的 adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Czech
1 entries- prolhaný adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Dutch
3 entries- leugenachtig adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- liegend adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- oneerlijk adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Finnish
1 entries- valheellinen adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
French
3 entries- fallacieux adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mensonger adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- trompeur adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Georgian
1 entries- ცრუ adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
German
3 entries- lügnerisch adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- unwahr adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- verlogen adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Greek
1 entries- αναληθής adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Hebrew
2 entries- לא ישר adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- שקרן adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Hungarian
2 entries- hazudozó adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- hazug adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Irish
1 entries- bréagach adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Italian
3 entries- bugiardo adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mendace adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- menzognero adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Japanese
2 entries- 不正直 adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- 虚偽の adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Latin
1 entries- mendax adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- derewîn adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- läajesoatich adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Portuguese
2 entries- mendaz adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mentiroso adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Romanian
1 entries- mincinos adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Russian
1 entries- лжи́вый adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- làžljiv adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- ла̀жљив adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Spanish
4 entries- embustero adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mendaz adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mendiga adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- mendigo adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Swedish
2 entries- förljugen adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
- lögnaktig adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Ukrainian
1 entries- брехли́вий adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Welsh
1 entries- celwyddog adj (lying, untruthful or dishonest)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Instead of giving me another mendacious story, just be honest for once.
Source: tatoeba (4408651)
Tell the truth in a hypocritical, mendacious world, and you'll be taken for insane.
Source: tatoeba (13163050)
He was dismissed as a mendacious witness.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.