Mendacious
Antonyms of MENDACIOUS
- loyal, virtuous, frank, upright, just, trustworthy, founded, moral, aboveboard, forthright, direct, genuine, precise, supported, proven, principled, candid, decent, real, right, naive, valid, known, respectable, earnest, ingenuous, true, justified, righteous, fair, honest, plainspoken, open, truthful, ethical, substantiated, factual, conscientious, right-minded, actual, accurate, correct, upstanding, sincere, faithful, scrupulous.
Examples of usage:
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Experience can never deceive, it may be incomplete, but never mendacious. "The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters" by George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie
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His clerk was absent serving papers in Etruria, and, hanging a mendacious " Back- in- 1- Hour" sign on his outer door, Shelby leaped down the stair. "The Henchman" by Mark Lee Luther
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To my profound relief, the influx of patients ceased, and the practise sank into its accustomed torpor; whereby I was able without base and mendacious subterfuge to escape in good time to my tryst. "The Eye of Osiris" by R. Austin Freeman
