Words similar to apocryphal

Example sentences for: apocryphal

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I wonder now if his problem isn't that he realizes he can't be and so--to paraphrase Baldwin's famous, if apocryphal, observation--this son must kill his father.
His best example of empiricism's limits was the (apocryphal) story of how, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a scientist tried to establish the existence of the human soul "not by speculating on the Vital Principle and the Intrinsic Substance of the Soul, as described in Aristotle and the Church Fathers, but by weighing a condemned criminal before and after execution."
I have always assumed it to be totally apocryphal.
--may be apocryphal.
"Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters."