Words similar to apocryphal
Example sentences for: apocryphal
How can you use “apocryphal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters."
I have always assumed it to be totally apocryphal.
The story of Columbus and the Madeiran archipelago is not entirely apocryphal, unlike so many other tales related to the islands.
Although pushiness is not a quality naturally approved of in Cornwall, neither is undue modesty: standing in his own light like the Mayor of Market Jew (another apocryphal figure).
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.
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