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.
雙語例句
1. The tort is the behavior that the CPA provides mendacious audIt'statement.
侵權(quán)行為指注冊會計師出具不實的審計報告的行為.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2. However, modern scholars being against metaphysics regard traditional metaphysics as mendacious nonsense.