The company's editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, has denied the allegations, describing them as "mendacious smears".

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Nor do we automatically hate the family or regard them as selfish and mendacious and so on.

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Obama's supposed support for a demilitarized Palestinian state is mendacious on two counts.

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Previously, Mr Dacre accused Grant of making "mendacious smears" after he claimed a Mail on Sunday story came from illicit eavesdropping.

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Among his greatest achievements are the savagely realistic watercolour drawings of mendacious lawyers and their hapless or vicious clients, set against bleak courtroom backdrops.

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His words drew a sharp rebuke from Mr Netanyahu's office, which called them "a dark and mendacious statement the likes of which we thought had passed from the world".

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Mr Straw said the government was ready to consider further changes, but nobody had come up with workable proposals which would outlaw indirect discrimination without opening the doors to floods of "mendacious" actions.

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He missed the nuances about genetic engineering applied to agriculture and food production and as is his wont, devoted ample ink to the anti-biotech crowd, including the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (which Pollack described only as a "nonprofit group, " although "doctrinaire anti-biotechnology lobbyists" would have been more accurate) and the radical, notoriously mendacious Friends of the Earth.

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