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MENDACIOUSLY
Definition of MENDACIOUSLY
adverb
In a lying or deceitful manner.
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Other senses
MENDACIOUSLY carries 2 further meanings.
In a false or lying manner; untruly; dishonestly.
adverb
in a mendacious and untruthful manner
Where it comes from
From mendacious + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
MENDACIOUSLY in a sentence
“Nothing symbolised this political bankruptcy better yesterday than the abject sight of Labour's Margaret Beckett and Keith Vaz joining a quartet of large and small-c conservatives – William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd and Geoffrey Howe in a mendaciously misleading attack on AV.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MENDACIOUSLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 134 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 69, 28 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MENDACIOUSLY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILMNOSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MENDACIOUSLY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start MENDACIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MENDACIOUSLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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