| Main Entry: | tall tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farfetched story |
Synonyms: |
cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fable, fish story, flight of fancy, tall story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
Synonyms: |
chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn |
| Notes: | an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
Synonyms: |
canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superstition |
Synonyms: |
fairy story, fallacy, false belief, folk tale, folklore, legend, lore, myth, notion, tall story, tall tale |
| Main Entry: | yarn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long and made-up |
Synonyms: |
adventure, alibi, anecdote, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, line, narrative, potboiler, prose, sea story, song and dance, song*, string, tale, tall story, tall tale |
| Main Entry: | cock-and-bull story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting but unbelievable story |
Synonyms: |
fanciful tale, farfetched story, fish story, flight of fancy, song and dance, tall story, tall tale, unbelievable tale |
| Main Entry: | fish story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated story |
Synonyms: |
bunk, cock-and-bull story, embellishment, exaggeration, farfetched story, incredible story, lie, overstatement, tall story, tall tale, trumped-up story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | shaggy dog story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unbelievable story |
Synonyms: |
exaggeration, tall story, tall tale |
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
imitation, Machiavellian, artful, backhanded, bogus, canting, chimerical, collusive, collusory, counterfeit, covinous, crooked, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double, double, double, evasive, exorbitant, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, faithless, fake, false, false as dicer's oaths, falsidical, falsified, far from the truth, fictitious, fishy, flannelmouthed, forged, forsworn, fraudulent, hollow, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insincere, invented, ironical, janus, mealy, pecksniffian, perfidious, pharisaical, phony, plausible, prodigal, pseudo, quasi, questionable, sanctimonious, shadowy, shifty, smooth, smooth, soi, supposititious, surreptitious, synthetic, tartuffish, tortuous, trothless, trumped up, truthless, uncandid, unfair, unfounded, uningenuous, untrue, unveracious, void of foundation, without foundation
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