fictitious
ficticio
definition
adjective
she pleaded guilty to stealing thousands in taxpayer dollars by having a fictitious employee on her payroll
not real or true, being imaginary or having been fabricated.
translation of 'fictitious'
adjective
ficticio
example
The actual events and people portrayed in Equivocal Death are entirely 'fictitious' .
I always think it's kind of neat to take some past historical event and tweak it into a 'fictitious' story.
After all, by inventing a 'fictitious' past, success in overcoming it would seem to be guaranteed.
However, when used for purposes of assessing taxes, 'fictitious' values do indeed become real ones.
We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or 'fictitious' ?
It's crucial, nonetheless, to draw the distinction between 'fictitious' creatures and real human beings.
Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a 'fictitious' and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
Each group not only had to design the game, but invent a 'fictitious' company, and determine their roles within it.
This must be a real, not a 'fictitious' , intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.
Halfbakery is a communal database of original, 'fictitious' inventions, edited by its users.
The characters from the Dubois Chronicles are 'fictitious' and are of my own creation.
I fused them into this 'fictitious' character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.
It's a two-hour 'fictitious' psychological thriller that has real elements to it.
Never cheat by inventing a 'fictitious' cab driver with whom you argue.
Memorials are built for great human beings and not for 'fictitious' characters.
It is set in a 'fictitious' women's college in a wholly real Oxford, where a poison pen is causing increasing alarm and distress among students and staff.
Claims of working for the 'fictitious' water board allowed bogus callers to steal from the home of an elderly Chelmsford resident.
We do not use pretentious, 'fictitious' terms for my establishment's beverages.
She used four 'fictitious' names on bogus loan applications to her company and pocketed the proceeds.
Grossly overvalued shares in these companies provided a 'fictitious' tax base from employee stock options and capital gains.
A new series of posters is making its appearance on the university campus, featuring 'fictitious' sufferers of psychoses.
Like the other expansion packs, there's a 'fictitious' near-future story behind Thunder.
Even though the character is completely 'fictitious' , it always retains some of the qualities of the player.
The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on 'fictitious' characters in a mythical village.
The process he describes is historical though the characters who bring the process to life are 'fictitious' .
Better to discover how science is in fact developed and learned than to fabricate a 'fictitious' structure to a similar effect.
This character could be 'fictitious' and yet the story would have had the same powerful message.
We made some phone calls to our people in the north, and they all confirmed that this is a true story and it's not a 'fictitious' story.
Murphy was a 'fictitious' freelancer Reynolds invented to extract some extra cash from the Irish Press.
For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a 'fictitious' character.
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