apocryphal
adjective
of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
apocryphally
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a word derived from
apocryphal.
Example Sentences
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During both trips, he was apocryphally credited with instilling peace in the country that was hosting him.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022
His first term as Fed chair has, in effect, been an embodiment of a quote possibly apocryphally attributed to John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?”
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
As another Briton once famously said of another bird, a Norwegian Blue parrot: “He's not dead, he's, he's restin’!” Because keeping a kingdom from falling, even apocryphally, must be exhausting.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2019
President Harry Truman famously said, perhaps apocryphally, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2018
As it is apocryphally said that they sold for a matter of a hundred and twenty dollars each, the sum must have reached considerable proportions, if their number was great.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
