apocryphal

One apocryphal story from the political correctness panic that has resurfaced for the cancel culture panic is that they don't teach Shakespeare in college anymore.

When I first encountered this quote in a posting on X, I found it so overdetermined that I thought it must be apocryphal.

Some see this as a new version of the apocryphal story of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Even though there’s no proof that Díaz actually said the apocryphal quote, I get why it has lingered: It’s a great insult on multiple levels.

There is an apocryphal story that as the book landed on desks around Hollywood, everyone flipped to the index to see what Phillips had written about them.