nursery tale
noun
Roget 594:
description,
account,
statement,
report;
expose
etc.
(disclosure)
529;
specification,
particulars;
state of facts,
summary of facts;
brief
etc.
(abstract)
596;
return
etc.
(record)
551;
catalogue raisonne [Fr.]
etc.
(list)
86;
guidebook
etc.
(information)
527.
delineation
etc.
(representation)
554;
sketch;
monograph;
minute account,
detailed particular account,
circumstantial account,
graphic account;
narration,
recital,
rehearsal,
relation.
historiography†,
chronography†;
historic Muse,
Clio;
history;
biography,
autobiography;
necrology,
obituary.
narrative,
history;
memoir,
memorials;
annals
etc.
(chronicle)
551;
saga;
tradition,
legend,
story,
tale,
historiette†;
personal narrative,
journal,
life,
adventures,
fortunes,
experiences,
confessions;
anecdote,
ana†,
trait.
work of fiction,
novel,
romance,
Minerva press;
fairy tale,
nursery tale;
fable,
parable,
apologue†;
dime novel,
penny dreadful,
shilling shocker relator
etc.
v.;
raconteur,
historian
etc.
(recorder)
553;
biographer,
fabulist†,
novelist.
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Roget 546:
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper;
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention;
misstatement,
misrepresentation;
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.];
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction;
fable,
nursery tale;
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515;
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement;
thing devised by the enemy;
canard;
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake;
claptrap.
press agent's yarn;
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony;
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud;
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext;
false plea
etc.
617;
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe;
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words;
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544;
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
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