apocryphal

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Nothing helped Lincoln's popularity more than the story--apocryphal or no--of his taking the vote of his Cabinet on a proposition of his own and then remarking: "Ayes one; Noes six.

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  1. adjective Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
  2. adjective Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . raced through Russia's trenches” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
  3. adjective Bible Of or having to do with the Apocrypha.

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  • This story might or might not be apocryphal - that's not something I care to investigate - but it goes like this: —  On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • The next day I get an email from the agent for that book of corporate erotica I walked away from last year (and I thought I wrote a post on it, but apparently it's apocryphal, the writing that is, not the thought). —  pretty dumb things
  • Not sure if it is apocryphal, but I was told that Justice Marshall would bring popcorn. —  The Volokh Conspiracy
  • And it is the one sonnet, of the 154, that some Shakespeare 'scholars' consider to be apocryphal - which is to say, they think it isn't by Shakespeare. —  Intrepid Liberal Journal
  • At that time, Democrats dismissed these GOP claims about Chinese drilling as apocryphal, and said that —  Russia Blog
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  1. from New Latin apocryphalis, from Late Latin apocrypha: see apocrypha.
 

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/əˈpɑkrɪfəl/
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