mendaciously

1. 1.

   in a mendacious and untruthful manner

   “I told him, quite untruthfully, that I had just returned from leave”

   Synonymsuntruthfully

Questions about mendaciously

What does mendaciously mean?

mendaciously means "in a mendacious and untruthful manner".

How many syllables are in mendaciously?

mendaciously has 5 syllables: men-da-ci-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for mendaciously?

Close synonyms include untruthfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mendaciously a common word?

mendaciously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.