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talesnounpl. of tale a rumor or report of a personal or sensational naturedon't believe the tales you hear about our neighbor's kid canards, stories, whispers dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearings, talks, tattlesdirty laundrydefamations, libels, slandershearsayfables, fabrications, fairy tales, falsehoods, falsities, fibs, lies, mendacities, prevarications, untruths, whoppers a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personallyasked Dad to tell once again the tale of how, as a kid, he broke his arm jumping out of a tree anecdotes(also anecdota), stories, yarns episodes, events, happenings, incidents, occurrencesrecitals, recitations a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivetold tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background fables, fabrications, fairy tales, falsehoods, falsities, fibs, lies, mendacities, prevarications, stories, taradiddles(or tarradiddles), untruths, whoppers distortions, exaggerations, half-truthsambiguities, equivocations, obliquitiesdefamations, libels, slandersperjuriesbluffs, fictions, poses, pretenses(or pretences)humbug, jives, nonsensecanards, fallacies, misconceptions, mythsfalsifications, misinformations, misreports, misrepresentations, misstatementsdeceits, dishonesties, duplicities, fraudulences truths facts, truisms, veritieshonesties, veracitiesauthentications, confirmations, substantiations, validations, verifications a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novelthe oft-told tale of Sleeping Beauty narratives, novelettes, novellas(or novelle), short stories, stories, yarns bedtime storiesexempla, fables, parablesanecdotes(also anecdota), jokesfairy tales, folktales, legends, myths, romancesaccounts, annals, chronicles, histories, records, reports a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being addedwhen the tale of the dead from the disaster is announced, the city will be in shock |