1610s, from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendacium "a lie, untruth, falsehood, fiction," from mendax (genitive mendacis) "lying, deceitful," from menda "fault, defect, carelessness in writing," from PIE root *mend- "physical defect, fault" (see amend (v.)). The sense evolution of Latin mendax was influenced by mentiri "to speak falsely, lie, deceive." Related: Mendaciously; mendaciousness.
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1. The tort is the behavior that the CPA provides mendacious audIt 'statement.
権利侵害行為とは、公認会計士が不実な監査報告書を発行する行為を指す。
2.However,modern scholars being against metaphysics regard traditional metaphysics as mendacious nonsense.
しかし、現代の反形上学者たちは伝統的な形而上学を無意味な虚偽陳述と見なして拒否している。
3.The mendacious beggar told a different tale of woe at every house.
この嘘つき乞食は、どの家に対しても異なる悲しい物語を作っている。
4.She gave us a mendacious report.
彼女は私たちに虚偽の報告をしてくれた。
5.There is no provision about the legal responsibility of celebrity advertising mendacious ads in our country.