apocryphal 的定义
- of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
- Ecclesiastical.of or relating to the Apocrypha.of doubtful sanction; uncanonical.
- false; spurious: He told an apocryphal story about the sword, but the truth was later revealed.
apocryphal 近义词
questionable; fake
apocryphal 的近义词 15 个
- fictitious
- inaccurate
- mythical
- unsubstantiated
- untrue
- counterfeit
- doubtful
- dubious
- equivocal
- false
- spurious
- unauthenticated
- ungenuine
- unverified
- wrong
apocryphal 的反义词 4 个
更多apocryphal例句
- That may be at least partly apocryphal, but there’s no question that elected officials today can expect less privacy than that enjoyed by politicians in the 1960s.
- It had become an apocryphal tale of sex, violence and the culture of impunity at elite institutions.
- Although apocryphal, Sigmund Freud supposedly remarked, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” which was meant to suggest that cigars are not always phallic symbols.
- This, after a possibly apocryphal story about a man who had a knitting needle unceremoniously stabbed through his penis, preventing both his escape and his avoidance of appearing in a sex column 40 years later.
- The quote is apocryphal, but that has not changed its significance for Army football players.
- There are plenty of examples of Christians editing Jewish apocryphal traditions for their own communities.
- Many of the quotes are mysteriously sourced, apocryphal, or misattributed.
- Lovely stuff, but someone should tell the future congresswoman that every one of these quotes is apocryphal.
- That semi-apocryphal quote aptly described the Britain of the 1970s.
- The apocryphal gospels contain many, and some are preserved by Persian and Arabian poets.
- Ice of such thickness on Lake Luna at this early date, however, surprised even that apocryphal person, the oldest inhabitant.
- It also led to the conception of the marvelous legend of the cross in the apocryphal gospels and ancient traditions.
- These last are of interest as indicating a familiar acquaintance with the apocryphal books in the early centuries.
- Our author cites likewise some of her accusers, and considers most of the current sayings against her as apocryphal.