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.
侵權行為指注冊會計師出具不實的審計報告的行為.
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2. However, modern scholars being against metaphysics regard traditional metaphysics as mendacious nonsense.
然而, 現代反形而上學家們把傳統形而上學看作是無意義的虛假陳述而加以拒斥.
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3. The mendacious beggar told a different tale of woe at every house.
這個撒謊的乞丐對于每一家都編了一個不同悲哀的故事.
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4. She gave us a mendacious report.
她給了我們一個虛假的報告.
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5. There is no provision about the legal responsibility of celebrity advertising mendacious ads in our country.