as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales?
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Recent Examples of fairy tale
This is a real-life fairy tale if there ever was one.
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María Mérida, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
Just like Kate and William brought us unity in 2011, or Meghan and Harry gave us a fresh infusion of fairy tale in 2018, Taylor and Travis could give us the kind of glittering love story that feels big enough to belong to everyone.
—Erin Hill, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Last season was a fairy tale, in the best sense of the word.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
When the backdrop looks like it’s been plucked straight from the pages of a fairy tale, bland hospitality simply won’t do.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025
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María Mérida, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
Just like Kate and William brought us unity in 2011, or Meghan and Harry gave us a fresh infusion of fairy tale in 2018, Taylor and Travis could give us the kind of glittering love story that feels big enough to belong to everyone.
—Erin Hill, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Last season was a fairy tale, in the best sense of the word.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
When the backdrop looks like it’s been plucked straight from the pages of a fairy tale, bland hospitality simply won’t do.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fairy tale
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Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Harrison called that a lie, saying Welsh knew of university professors teaching LGBTQ+ content long before Monday.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Then, in February, after an early version of the site was ready, a story about Shield Seniors and Tejasvi appeared in the Dallas Observer, bringing her to the attention of the people at AARP.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Fairy tale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairy%20tale. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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