potboiler
[ pot-boi-ler ]
Synonyms for potboiler
- account
- anecdote
- book
- chronicle
- chronology
- description
- detail
- fiction
- history
- narration
- plot
- version
- line
- recount
- report
- statement
- yarn
- long and short of it
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR POTBOILER
Fanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface.
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cliche
nounoverused, hackneyed phrasecliché
nounoverused, hackneyed phrasefiction
nounmade-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
nounstory, talenarratives
nounstory, taleRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.