fictile

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictile
Adjective
  • Raskob took his own leap into the political fray by bankrolling Smith and using the DNC to settle scores—with the help of a pliant press.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Beaton used his patient, pliable and easygoing sisters, Nancy and Barbara as his early muses.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The original 20-point peace plan called for all living and dead hostages to be turned over within 72 hours, but the timeline for the dead hostages’ release quickly became more pliable as Hamas outlined the difficulty in recovering them.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement Differences between biological age and chronological age speaks to the possibility that aging is malleable.
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Technology and the almighty algorithms keep many musicians under their thumb, and only the malleable prosper.
    Waylon Barnes, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While the naked manicure trend has been reigning supreme among celebrities, Dua Lipa has forwent the current nail artless aesthetic for something altogether more starry and summer-ready.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 May 2025
  • First adapted for the screen by Otto Preminger in 1958, the film starred David Niven and Jean Seberg, forever conflating the author in the public imagination with the artless allure — and iconic haircut — of Ms. Seberg.
    Sadie Stein, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • The books have the guileless charm of club-notes.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Whereas the title Amerika emphasizes the setting, The Missing Person points to the novel’s focus on the travails of a guileless hero struggling to find his footing in a frenetic new world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For Candy, getting to play the unsophisticated traveling salesman, a big man like himself, gave him an opportunity to showcase both his flair for broad comedy and, for the first time onscreen, his innate vulnerability.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And there’s been this story that retail investors are unsophisticated.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The new currency is content, education and genuine engagement.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Employees should use those channels first and consider a public callout only as a genuine last resort.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Channels the inner, bestial urges to release an unworldly howl that pushes back any nearby enemies.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • He is known for pioneering overuse of the Auto-Tune effect, giving his vocals an unworldly quality.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025
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“Fictile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictile. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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