Fable: alternatives and connections

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

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Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

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Alt. of Allegorical

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Alt. of Allegorical

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To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

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Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

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Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.

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Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.

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Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.

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Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.

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A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances.…

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A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

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The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

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The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

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That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of re…

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Procurable.

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