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Don was trapped in a mess, but was loath to confess;
So, this high-profile man about town
turned into a fibber – grew glibber and glibber –
with lies meant to trick and confound.
Don’s casual veracity flipped to mendacity
when caught with his pants-ity down.
So much for veracious; Don’s now quite mendacious.
His lying has grown leaps and bounds.
The lesson (if any): one fib begets many –
a fact neither deep nor profound.
Avoid the mendacious, (adjective). It’s contagious.
And so is mendacity, (noun). SAJones 1999
Decades later, there’s more, with the press keeping score,
maintaining a falsehood countdown –
Or count-up (more exactly!) describing the “facts” he
ignores, mangles, mis-states, propounds.
Twenty-plus lies a day, many journalists say.
Mendacity clearly abounds. SAJones 9/2020
Don was trapped in a mess, but was loath to confess;
So, this high-profile man about town
turned into a fibber – grew glibber and glibber –
with lies meant to trick and confound.
Don’s casual veracity flipped to mendacity
when caught with his pants-ity down.
So much for veracious; Don’s now quite mendacious.
His lying has grown leaps and bounds.
The lesson (if any): one fib begets many –
a fact neither deep nor profound.
Avoid the mendacious, (adjective). It’s contagious.
And so is mendacity, (noun). SAJones 1999
Decades later, there’s more, with the press keeping score,
maintaining a falsehood countdown –
Or count-up (more exactly!) describing the “facts” he
ignores, mangles, mis-states, propounds.
Twenty-plus lies a day, many journalists say.
Mendacity clearly abounds. SAJones 9/2020
| WORD mendacity, n. (men dass’ ih tee) Deceit, falsehood, untruthfulness, prevarication, misrepresentation, deception, dishonesty. mendacious, adj. Telling lies habitually. Lying, untruthful. Given to concealment or misrepresentation of the truth. Dishonest, deceitful. Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Remy de Gourmont I originally wrote this with a "generic" liar in mind, and I called him Tom. For today's climate, I have made an inevitable change. AND I added some relevant lines. |