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1
a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature
- don't believe the tales you hear about our neighbor's kid
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2
a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally
- asked Dad to tell once again the tale of how, as a kid, he broke his arm jumping out of a tree
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3
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
- told tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background
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- fable,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fib,
- lie,
- mendacity,
- prevarication,
- story,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- untruth,
- whopper
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4
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
- the oft-told tale of Sleeping Beauty
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“Tale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale. Accessed 27 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of tale was before the 12th century
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