(n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
(n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
(n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
(n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
(v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
(v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
(5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
(7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
(8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
(9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
(10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
(11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
(12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
(13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
(14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
(16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
(18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
(19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
(20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.
Untruth
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.
(n.) That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clapper has since admitted that was the "least untruthful" answer he could have given.
(2) Getting your child a place in your local school becomes more and more difficult; there is more competition for jobs; wages are held down.” As the war of words heightened, the Tory former PM Sir John Major accused the leave side of telling deliberate untruths.
(3) The second alleged untruth surrounds the police claim that they properly investigated the use of the gun Duggan had in a pistol whipping attack weeks before he collected it.
(4) Leahy, joined by ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, criticised director of national intelligence James Clapper for making untruthful statements to Congress in March about the bulk phone records collection on Americans, and NSA director Keith Alexander for overstating the usefulness of that collection for stopping terrorist attacks.
(5) Describing how his reputation had been destroyed by Rowland's "untruths", the former chief whip, who lost his job over the row, said the officer's claims that he called the police "plebs" and swore at them were "made up and disseminated" by Rowland himself.
(6) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(7) The family of Ian Tomlinson said Scotland Yard’s statement marked the end of a long legal battle in the face of untruthful accounts and obstruction by PC Simon Harwood, who assaulted Tomlinson, and other officers.
(8) There were so many stories, so many rumours, so many repeated untruths, so many unchecked facts and retweeted opinions, and half-baked half-lies, that the story, let alone the truth, never had a chance.
(9) Bob Shrum , a Democratic consultant who worked for Al Gore and John Kerry, said: “The untruths are more noticeable now because they’re in the White House but her pattern all along was to say whatever pops into her head that she thinks defends [Trump].
(10) Whatever, he should not be allowed to get away with untruths.
(11) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
(12) Voters in Stoke who previously said they’d vote for him are sure to be put off as Ukip is revealed as just another political party peddling in untruths.
(13) Cameron accused the leave side of “resorting to total untruths to con people into taking a leap in the dark: it’s irresponsible and it’s wrong and it’s time that the leave campaign was called out on the nonsense that they are peddling.” But instead of forcing the other side to defend its claims, Cameron’s attack fed an atmosphere of general detachment from rational argument and empirical evidence.
(14) It's surely not just me who, reading this, thinks of the government telling us, in the brazen untruth akin to O'Brien convincing Winston Smith that two plus two equals five, that we're all in this together.
(15) "The picture painted for the PAC by the BBC Trust witnesses on 10 July 2013 was – in addition to specific untruths and inaccuracies – fundamentally misleading about the extent of Trust knowledge and involvement," he writes.
(16) They have – knowingly – told untruths about the cost of Europe .
(17) Burke asks him to withdraw an "untruthful statement".
(18) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
(19) He said the NSA had no such program – and then added that that was the least "untruthful" remark he could make.
(20) In the document leaked onThursday, Thompson accuses the two of trading in "specific untruths and inaccuracies".