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tall story
noun as in anecdote
noun as in big talk
noun as in cock-and-bull story
noun as in distortion
noun as in exaggeration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in fable
noun as in fiction
Strong matches
noun as in fish story
noun as in invention
noun as in inveracity
Weak matches
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
noun as in lie
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in misrepresentation
noun as in misstatement
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in myth
noun as in old wives' tale
noun as in sensationalism
noun as in shaggy-dog story
Weak matches
noun as in tale
noun as in tall tale
noun as in tall talk
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
Example Sentences
"It was good you get to Holy Cross before the big storm," he said, with a faint smile of tolerance for the white man's tall story.
The tall building is itself artistically akin to the tall story.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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