Meaning of apocryphiar | Babel Free

Definitions

One who rewrites history to their own advantage or tells self-aggrandizing falsehoods.

Examples

“Martha Gellhorn made a long list of such incidents, concluding that as an "apocryphiar. . . Miss⟳ Hellman ranks sublime."”

“Became a shameful embarrassing apocryphiar about himself, which I believe⟳ damaged him as a man, but he was not like⟳ that in Spain nor in China . . . never in my hearing.”

“There's no denying that Hemingway was, to use⟳ a polite term invented by Gellhorn, an “apocryphiar”—not just a liar, but a man who invents stories about himself, casting himself in the best possible light⟳.”

“How could he be so true in his craft and be a self-aggrandizing apocryphiar who cheated on his wives in his everyday life?”

“The trend toward “apocryphism, a meld of apocryphal story and apocryphiar,” was growing at an alarming rate—in other words, the telling of stories by the famous about the famous who in the same breath make⟳ themselves more famous.”

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