Thesaurus / potboiler
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synonyms for potboiler
- best seller
- book
- drama
- fable
- fantasy
- imagination
- legend
- myth
- narrative
- novel
- tale
- yarn
- anecdote
- clothesline
- concoction
- crock
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fib
- hooey
- improvisation
- invention
- lie
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- romance
- smoke
- untruth
- whopper
- cliff-hanger
- figment of imagination
- fish story
- storytelling
- tall story
- terminological inexactitude
- work of imagination
- account
- anecdote
- book
- chronicle
- chronology
- description
- detail
- fiction
- history
- narration
- plot
- version
- line
- recount
- report
- statement
- yarn
- long and short of it
- fiction
- narrative
- novella
- paperback
- prose
- story
- tale
- yarn
- novelette
- romance
- best-seller
- cliff-hanger
- banality
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- commonplace
- corn
- evenness
- flatness
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- monotony
- motto
- proverb
- saw
- shibboleth
- stereotype
- tag
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- vapidity
- verbiage
- boiler plate
- cliché
- familiar tune
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- old chestnut
- old story
- prosaicism
- trite remark
- comedy
- drama
- hit
- musical
- opera
- performance
- show
- entertainment
- farce
- flop
- mask
- smash
- theatrical
- tragedy
- turkey
- curtain-raiser
- one-act
- smash hit
- stage show
- adventure
- anecdote
- article
- autobiography
- biography
- book
- comedy
- description
- drama
- fable
- fantasy
- feature
- fiction
- history
- information
- legend
- memoir
- myth
- narrative
- novel
- record
- report
- tale
- tragedy
- version
- allegory
- apologue
- beat
- chronicle
- cliffhanger
- epic
- folktale
- gag
- narration
- nonfiction
- parable
- recital
- relation
- romance
- saga
- scoop
- sequel
- serial
- spiel
- yarn
- conte
- fairy tale
- long and short of it
- news item
- old saw
- anxiety
- apprehension
- confusion
- doubt
- insecurity
- tension
- thriller
- uncertainty
- chiller
- dilemma
- eagerness
- expectancy
- expectation
- grabber
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- impatience
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- irresolution
- perplexity
- wavering
- cliff-hanger
- cloak-and-dagger
- page-turner
- anecdote
- tale
- adventure
- alibi
- fable
- fabrication
- lie
- line
- narrative
- prose
- song
- string
- fairy tale
- sea story
- song and dance
- tall story
- tall tale
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use potboiler in a sentence
I went into the house to fetch the required sum, and, by some means I cannot explain, got to work again upon the latest potboiler.
MR. PUNCH IN BOHEMIAVARIOUSThat odious Milord Potboiler amuses himself by making poor Theodore hide in my dressing-room and stand there half the day.
SCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFEHONORE DE BALZACFanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface.
FANNY'S FIRST PLAYGEORGE BERNARD SHAWWORDS RELATED TO POTBOILER
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.