Hats off to the parents who refused to allow their kids to be filmed for this soulless program, or to allow the cameras into the REAL real Orange County at Laguna Beach High School.
mendacity | synonyms: arise, artificial, beat, betrayal, bogus, carry, caviling, chicanery, compress, corruption, deceit, deceitful, deceitfulness, deception, deceptive, deceptiveness, delusion, devise, dishonest, dishonesty, dishonorable, dodging, duplicity, elevate, empty, erroneous, exaggeration, fable, fabrication, faithless, fakery, fallacy, false, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, faulty, feigned, fib, fiction, fill, flimflam, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulent ...
Chiefly British: crackers. Law: non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. 2. Informal.