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

And yet, though it is a watery apologue, it will not hold water for a moment.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

Shortly afterwards, it was again brought forward by Dr. Franklin, in an ingenious apologue, marked by his peculiar humor, simplicity, logic, and humanity.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles

Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue.

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

I am rather proud of this little apologue of the apple.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane