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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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