He did so; and, to save comments, yet enable the reader to appreciate his explanation, the true part of it is printed in italics, the mendacious portion in ordinary type.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
How very like profaneness some people's piety is! Faith, with this school, means anything the opposite of Charity. You are morally truthful: but intellectually mendacious. The texts on Solomon's Song! You know very well there is not one. No grave writer in all Scripture has ever deigned to cite, or notice, that coarse composition; puellarum deliciae. Modest periphrasis for "I like it." Motto for this Diary; "Ego, et Deus meus."
K. In other words, a good, old-fashioned, sober, humble Christian, to whom the daring familiarities of your school seem blasphemies.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
"Gracious!" I admitted again with splendidly mendacious veracity. "How we do find each other out in Kings Port!"英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
But I refrained. I feared the fate of a flatterer. I had witnessed her delight at the crafty and discreet words of Bud and Jacks. Miss Hinkle was not one to be beguiled by the plated-silver tongue of a flatterer. So I joined the ranks of the candid and honest. At once I became mendacious and didactic.英文原著 · 《Options》
Nor I be made the figure of a seal
To privileges venal and mendacious,
Whereat I often redden and flash with fire.英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
* Sandeau and Gautier, the victims in these two stories, were neither spiteful, nor mendacious, nor irrational, so they are probably true. The second was possibly due to Balzac's odd notions of "business being business." The first, I have quite recently seen reason to think, may have been a sort of reminiscence of one of the traits in Diderot's extravagant encomium on Richardson.英文原著 · 《The Human Comedy》