Crossword-Solution: APOCRYPHAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Apocryphal | a. | Pertaining to the Apocrypha. |
| Apocryphal | a. | Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “APOCRYPHAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of doubtful authenticity | 1 answer |
| uncorroborated | 1 answer |
| uncanonical | 1 answer |
| Unauthenticated | 1 answer |
| Possibly spurious | 1 answer |
| Of questionable authenticity | 1 answer |
| A fake prophecy: 'Earth's lost metal' - it's doubtful | 1 answer |
| BEING OF QUESTIONABLE AUTHENTICITY | 11 answers |
| parabolically | 12 answers |
| parabolical | 12 answers |
| parabolic | 12 answers |
| Allegorical | 14 answers |
| mythological | 36 answers |
| Unauthentic | 43 answers |
| Fabulous place | 43 answers |
| Dubious | 45 answers |
| mythical | 50 answers |
| Fictitious | 56 answers |
| Legendary | 57 answers |
| Arguable | 60 answers |
| Fabulous | 68 answers |
| renowned | 69 answers |
| famed | 70 answers |
| Romantic | 74 answers |
| disputable | 76 answers |
| Fanciful | 76 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APOCRYPHAL (5)
This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque deformity of Aesop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic.[101] It is given up in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest credit.
The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apocryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.
Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register.
Endless stories, some of them more or less true, most of them apocryphal, were told of him--stories of his shrewd, unexpected moves in big cases, of his witty retorts, of his generosities, of his peculiarities of dress, of eating and drinking; stories of his adventures with women.
The document, if not apostolic, won credit as "statesmanlike." It took pains, of course, to insist that there can be no error of any sort in the sacred books; it even defended those parts which Protestants count apocryphal as thoroughly as the remainder of Scripture, and declared that the book of Tobit was not compiled of man, but written by God.
Quotes with APOCRYPHAL (3)
An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.
There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinio…
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Appears in: Crossroads, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2005).