mendacious

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• /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
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Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”), + -ious.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: leunagtig — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Afrikaans: oneerlik — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Afrikaans: liegend — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Armenian: ստախոս (staxos) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Armenian: սուտասան (sutasan) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Bulgarian: лъжлив (lǎžliv) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Catalan: mentider — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Chinese Mandarin: 說謊的 /说谎的 (shuōhuǎng de) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Czech: prolhaný — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Dutch: leugenachtig — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Dutch: oneerlijk — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Dutch: liegend — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Finnish: valheellinen — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• French: fallacieux — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• French: mensonger — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• French: trompeur — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Georgian: ცრუ (cru) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• German: lügnerisch — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• German: verlogen — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• German: unwahr — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Greek: αναληθής (analithís) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Ancient Greek: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Hebrew: שקרן — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Hebrew: לא ישר — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Hungarian: hazug — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Hungarian: hazudozó — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Irish: bréagach — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Italian: mendace — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Italian: menzognero — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Italian: bugiardo — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Japanese: 虚偽の (kyogi no) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Japanese: 不正直 (fushōjiki) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Northern Kurdish: derewîn — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Latin: mendax — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Norwegian Bokmål: løgnaktig — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Plautdietsch: läajesoatich — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Portuguese: mentiroso — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Portuguese: mendaz — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Romanian: mincinos — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Russian: лжи́вый (lžívyj) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Serbo-Croatian: ла̀жљив — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Serbo-Croatian: làžljiv — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Spanish: mentiroso — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Spanish: embustero — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Spanish: mendaz — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Spanish: mendigo — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Spanish: mendiga — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Swedish: lögnaktig — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Swedish: förljugen — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Ukrainian: брехли́вий (brexlývyj) — lying, untruthful or dishonest
• Welsh: celwyddog — lying, untruthful or dishonest