(a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film.
(2) The story, he later admitted to Lord Justice Leveson, was apocryphal.
(3) One apocryphal story about The Hangover was that it was based on the stag night of Choke producer Tripp Vinson , who supposedly went awol from his own party.
(4) There's a story, possibly apocryphal, about Bennett in which he says: "It's funny that people think I'm so nice, I'm actually a bit of a cunt."
(5) Released in 1997, it’s also apocryphally known as the most returned video game of all time; players were reportedly lured in by the visuals then repelled by the mysteries of the Japanese role-playing genre.
(6) The following is possibly apocryphal, but when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
(7) There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the imposition of the first Plantagenet prince of Wales was a trick.
(8) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
(9) To his fans, though, he's rap's Wolf Of Wall Street, someone who weaves apocryphal tales of an ostentatious lifestyle and encourages them to go and get it for themselves.
(10) Just like the apocryphal shrinking Pizza Express pizza, British houses have been getting smaller.
(11) Everyone has at least one ridiculous story and it is impossible to tell which are true and which apocryphal.
(12) Using biblical and biblical-apocryphal sources, the characteristics of Jewish-Christian patriarchism are shown which as a system, especially embodied by elderly men, was very efficient up to the beginning of the 19th century.
(13) This is the first, and probably the most popular, of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, a short, dark and compelling novel set in what he called “my apocryphal county”, a fictional rendering of Lafayette County in his native Mississippi.
(14) John Oliver continued his criticism of president Trump, focusing on his domination of the news cycle by making apocryphal statements , saying: “You can’t avoid talking about him.” “Trump dominates the news cycle like a fart dominates the interior of a Volkswagen Beetle,” he said at the start of his Sunday night show.
(15) Consider some of the ego-centric stories – most infamously, the pants-down motivational speech in the Bayern dressing-room, which feels apocryphal but is true – and the line appears blurred, to say the least.
(16) There is, of course, the famous and possibly apocryphal line , attributed to Ford while shooting the original films and aimed at Lucas: "George, you can type this shit, but you sure can't say it."
(17) They are victims of circumstances and forces much more powerful, immoral and brutal than the apocryphal “bad man with a gun” who can be stopped by a “good man” with the same.
(18) However, this remark would appear to be apocryphal.
(19) The tale may be apocryphal, but when the wily French statesman Talleyrand died in 1838, the no less wily Austrian chancellor Metternich’s response is said to have been : “I wonder what he meant by that?” These days it is getting to be a bit like this with George Osborne .
(20) This reflects the narrative of most actual papal elections – these stories tend to be a serious exploration of what is supposed to be a famously apocryphal question: is the pope a Catholic?
Doubtful
Definition:
(a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
(a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
(a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
(a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
(a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(2) p-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) also reduced the response to levodopa but the usefulness of PCPA as an inhibitor of 5HT synthesis in these experiments in doubtful since it also inhibited the hypoglycaemic effects of 5HTP and i.c.v.
(3) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(5) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(9) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(10) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(11) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(12) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(13) We feel that they, as presented, leave serious doubt as to the validity of their conclusions.
(14) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(15) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
(16) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
(17) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(18) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(19) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
(20) Coghlin said: “There is no doubt that, as a consequence of the personalities involved, these proceedings attracted a very considerable degree of media publicity both before and, to a certain degree, subsequent to the trial.