Synonyms for fairytale
fai·ry·tale

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1. fairytale, fairy tale, fairy storynoun

   a story about fairies; told to amuse children

   Synonyms:
   fairy story, song and dance, fairy tale, cock-and-bull story

2. fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story, song and dancenoun

   an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

   Synonyms:
   fairy story, song and dance, fairy tale, cock-and-bull story

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How to use fairytale in a sentence?

1. South Africa Branden Grace:

   It's been a long year and a hard year and now towards the end this is going to be a good Christmas, so it has been a fairytale ending.

2. Vecernji List:

   The win was celebrated throughout Croatia after a fairytale performance which shattered Messi's Argentina to pieces, while Messi was totally subdued, Modric played like a wizard and deserved all the plaudits.

3. Emma Watson:

   I think I'm being given this award because of who Belle is and what she represents. The villagers in our fairytale wanted to make Belle believe the world was smaller than the way that she saw it, with fewer opportunities for her. I love playing someone who didn't listen to any of that.

4. Stefanos Tsitsipas:

   Feels like a fairytale almost, i'm living a dream, living what I worked so hard for. I feel emotional but not much.

5. Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson:

   We made it to the World Cup and we're really happy about that, but we didn't quite anticipate how many fans we would gain all over the world. But in sports in general everyone loves the underdog, we are a fairytale story, a nation of 350,000 people on this big stage is quite something, and we hear it from fans all over the world.