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fairy tale

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fairy tale

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?

Synonyms of fairy tale

fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

Words Related to fairy tale

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms of fairy tale

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of fairy tale

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