dmallord
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Well, limp dick, care to show where Judge McAfee declared either one 'lied under oath?'mendacity
mĕn-dăs′ĭ-tē
noun
They lied under oath, numb nuts.
- The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
- A lie; a falsehood.
McAfee was careful with his words, using definition number one rather than number two. [Don't get kindergarten 'pissy' or 'shitty' here with your smirking.] He said it rose to the level of mendacity. If he had found it met the second definition, numb nuts, he would have judged both of them guilty of lying and had them removed from the case or overturned the case, perhaps. He didn't. Team Trump did not prove their claims in his estimation, but McAfee could smell the accused were dirty in some sense of mendacity.
You didn't provide the dictionary source you used, but to help you out with that, many dictionaries use the definition appearing first as the one most frequently used. Successive definitions are listed in order of declining frequency rather than according to semantic evolution. Your dictionary source probably follows this pattern. Consequently, you should stick with the primary meaning, number one, since nowhere in McAfee's declaration will you find that he judged either of them as 'liars.'