mendacity (n.)
- dishonesty
- dodging
- equivocation
- exaggeration
- falsehood
- falsity
- farrago
- fib
- fibbing
- fiction
- flam
- flimflam
- half-truth
- hedging
- lie
- lying
- prevarication
- shifting
- story
- tale
- taradiddle
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- yarn
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
