apocryphally
- 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
The data, he added, instead supports a conclusion sometimes attributed, perhaps apocryphally, to Winston Churchill, the former British leader: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2022
When his wife objected, the president apocryphally quipped that if the gold fork was good enough for former president James Buchanan, it was good enough for Tabby.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
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
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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
