"It is the most fictitious of forms".
Freud offered an almost entirely fictitious story of human nature and origins, but he did so to combat the equally fictitious and far more malevolent stories which nationalism and later fascism supplied.
However, his firm was almost as fictitious as his claims to genius.
Its enviable returns in previous years were found to have been almost completely fictitious, and its founder went to jail for fraud.
The licentiousness of Louis XV, followed by the widely rumoured, though almost certainly fictitious, bisexual promiscuity of Marie Antoinette, brought the throne into disrepute.Worse, the queen represented the shift to a pro-Austrian foreign policy which was widely perceived as having brought France only military and diplomatic humiliation.
As most scholars agree, the conversation putatively recorded by Pythodorus, passed on to Antiphon, and then recounted to Cephalus, is almost certainly fictitious.
Stroheim's tales of military experience are almost completely fictitious; the ""von"" in his name was an affectation adopted at Ellis Island in 1909; and, counter to his own claim, he did not participate in the production of The Birth of a Nation in 1914.
Even so, the stories about his activities, and in particular his role in the restoration of the icons and the alleged second battle at Anzen (which is clearly inspired by the events of 838), are regarded as almost certainly fictitious.
While Hopkins and his assistant John Stearne really did torture, try and hang John Lowes, the vicar of Brandeston, Gaskill notes that other than those basic facts the film's narrative is "almost completely fictitious".
The writer claims that the source is the Register of Whichenovre-hall but the truth is that the piece is almost certainly entirely fictitious.
