Sentence examples for largely fictitious from inspiring English sources
In October, the S.E.C. asserted that AremisSoft's financial statements were largely fictitious and that the company's two top executives stole as much as $300 million from American investors.
By the autumn, Blair had published a largely fictitious dossier on Iraq's WMD and persuaded Bush to go down "the UN route" to war.
Mr. Tovey, in his droll, avuncular way, was also making a more practical point: Since the order of the pieces in the concert was changed, the printed program was now largely fictitious as well.
Yet all those earnest policy documents being printed to woo voters will turn out to be largely fictitious given the lack of political will to drive through sufficient development.
A supporting brief filed by gay rights groups accused the other side of using a "largely fictitious tale that those who seek to deprive lesbian and gay Americans of rights are the ones being victimized".
You know it's going to be a waste of time because of the reference in the title to a largely fictitious demographic that was drained of its comic possibilities long ago.
Indeed, the argument was (mostly) fictitious.
Mr. Zawi, an Iraqi, went by the nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and was long thought to be a largely fictional character, or a role played by several people, though as General Lanza put it, "As time went on we believed he was no longer fictitious".
What that means, in more nuts-and-bolts terms, is a book that is interspersed with clearly fictitious, largely awkward monologues (ascribed to Bob Dole, Al Gore, Monica Lewinsky, etc).
A most outrageous aspect of the debt burden that is placed on the taxpayers' shoulders since 2008 is that most of the underlying debt claims are fictitious and illegitimate: they are largely due to manipulated asset price bubbles, dubious or illegal financial speculations, and scandalous conversion of financial gamblers' losses into public liability.
The novels focused largely on the ageless vampire Lestat and a fictitious history of vampires that begins in ancient Egypt.
