apologue

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As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2016

The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

Professor Huxley, in one of those smart passages of arms which so forcibly illustrated his intellectual vigour, gave an apologue, which I wish that I could steal without acknowledgment.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Let me tell you an apologue, M. le Vicomte.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various