With a degree of mendacity previously unknown even 'mongst City's most prevaricating rascals, the lone surviving member of the clan Laverite was Honore, whose grasping tenacity toward maintaining her ancient family's dubious claim to blatant lyingest-in-the-land notoriety had become increasingly an overtly outrageous display of unrelenting audacity in the face of the city folks' otherwise upright puritanical mores.
clench, clasp, purchase (not an item bought)