tall story

episode gag narration narrative reminiscence short story sketch tale tall tale yarn

chestnut incident recital relation

fairy tale fish story long and short of it old chestnut

boasting bragging exaggeration fancy talk fine talk fish story gas hogwash hot air self-aggrandizing tall talk

fanciful tale farfetched story fish story flight of fancy song and dance tall tale unbelievable tale

bias exaggeration lie misinterpretation misrepresentation misstatement misuse

BS baloney bend buckle coloring contortion crock crookedness jazz jive line malformation mutilation perversion slant smoke story torture twist warp

intorsion malconformation misshape twistedness

beauty clarity perfection

baloney excess fabrication falsehood fantasy hyperbole misjudgment misrepresentation untruth

aggrandizement amplification boasting caricature coloring crock elaboration embroidery emphasis enlargement exaltation extravagance fancy hogwash inflation line magnification overemphasis overestimation pretension pretentiousness rant romance stretch whopper yarn

figure of speech fish story flight of fancy jazz

truth

compression decrease lessening shrinkage

minimization reduction understatement unembellishment

fantasy fiction legend myth parable tale yarn

allegory apologue bestiary bunk crock fabrication falsehood fib figment hogwash invention lie romance untruth whopper

fairy story fairy tale fish story old chestnut old saw one for the birds white lie

nonfiction truth

sense

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 potboiler prevarication romance smoke untruth whopper

cliff-hanger figment of imagination fish story storytelling terminological inexactitude work of imagination

nonfiction reality truth

bunk cock-and-bull story embellishment exaggeration farfetched story incredible story lie overstatement tall tale trumped-up story yarn

deceit fake falsehood fancy fantasy fib fiction figment forgery prevarication sham story untruth yarn

reality truth

steal

aspersion backbiting calumniation calumny canard cock-and-bull story deceit deception defamation detraction dishonesty disinformation distortion evasion fable fabrication falsehood falseness falsification falsity fib fiction forgery fraudulence guile hyperbole inaccuracy invention libel mendacity misrepresentation misstatement myth obloquy perjury prevarication revilement reviling slander story subterfuge tale untruth vilification white lie whopper

deceit deception dishonesty disinformation distortion evasion fabrication falsehood fiction forgery inaccuracy misrepresentation myth perjury slander tale

aspersion backbiting calumniation calumny defamation detraction fable falseness falsification falsity fib fraudulence guile hyperbole invention libel mendacity misstatement obloquy prevarication revilement reviling subterfuge vilification whopper

white lie

nonfiction truth

distortion exaggeration fabrication falsehood falsification misstatement untruth

adulteration coloring lie mutilation oversimplification slant story stretch twist

false light not a true picture

truth

distortion exaggeration fabrication falsehood inaccuracy

adulteration coloring falsification lie mutilation slant story stretch twist untruth

false light not a true picture

truth

fable fantasy fiction illusion imagination legend lore parable superstition tale tradition

allegory apologue creation delusion fabrication fancy figment invention saga

fairy story folk ballad folk tale mythos

fact nonfiction reality truth

certainty

fairy story fallacy false belief folk tale folklore legend lore myth notion tall tale

aggrandizement boasting excess fabrication hype hyperbole overemphasis puffery whopper

fish story tabloid journalism yellow journalism

exaggeration tall tale

fiction rumor yarn

canard chestnut clothesline defamation detraction exaggeration fabrication falsehood falsity fib lie misrepresentation prevarication rigmarole scandal slander spiel untruth

cock-and-bull story untruism

truth

honesty praise

nonfiction

cock-and-bull story exaggeration fable fish story flight of fancy yarn

aggrandizement amplification baloney boasting caricature crock elaboration embroidery enlargement exaltation excess extravagance fabrication falsehood fancy fantasy figure of speech fish story flight of fancy hogwash hyperbole hyperbolism inflation jazz line magnification misjudgment misrepresentation overemphasis overestimation overstatement pretension pretentiousness rant romance stretch untruth whopper yarn

anecdote tale

adventure alibi fable fabrication lie line narrative potboiler prose song string

fairy tale sea story song and dance tall tale

truth