Difference between Mendacious and False

What is the difference between Mendacious and False?

Mendacious as an adjective is lying, untruthful or dishonest while False as an adjective is untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Mendacious

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: lying, untruthful or dishonest false or untrue

False

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.Spurious, artificial (as in false teeth).A state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.

Example sentence: The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

We hope you now know whether to use Mendacious or False in your sentence.

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