apologue

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As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2016

The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

Remarks.—This is a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.

From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various

And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various