apocryphal
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This apocryphal lazybones is defined by two traits.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
What defines him instead are various quips, mordant jokes and accounts of bizarre behavior, many no doubt apocryphal, recorded by his admirers and detractors in the centuries after his death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Much of “Flour” is concerned with the woman’s conversation with her driver about a parable from the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas that he is translating from Coptic—a tale, he says, about emptiness and unknowing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
When I first encountered this quote in a posting on X, I found it so overdetermined that I thought it must be apocryphal.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
But he wasn’t called anything because this is an apocryphal story, which means that it is a lie, too.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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