Synonyms for potboiler
noun story, talecliché
noun. overused, hackneyed phrase
fiction
noun. made-up story
- anecdote
- best seller
- book
- cliff-hanger
- clothesline
- concoction
- crock
- drama
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- fib
- figment of imagination
- fish story
- hooey
- imagination
- improvisation
- invention
- legend
- lie
- misrepresentation
- myth
- narrative
- novel
- potboiler
- prevarication
- romance
- smoke
- storytelling
- tale
- tall story
- terminological inexactitude
- untruth
- whopper
- work of imagination
- yarn
narrative
noun. story, tale
narratives
noun. story, tale
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