They concluded that although the city's much publicized "crime wave" was largely fictitious and manufactured by the press, the coverage had a very real consequence for the administration of criminal justice.
But this would be based on the assumption that the early part of the story is largely fictitious.
Although largely fictitious, the story does contain elements of historical fact.
Before 1933 a United Front of any kind had been largely fictitious.
The crucial experiment on which he placed so much weight was 'largely fictitious, newly invented for its present purpose'.
It is later implied that the whole prophecy was largely fictitious.
The progress in the show relies less on the famous but largely fictitious forensic procedures used in the CSI franchise and other procedural shows.
Only later did he realize that the alleged writers' colony was largely fictitious.
Historian Milo Milton Quaife, however, regarded Kinzie's account of Point du Sable as "largely fictitious and wholly unauthenticated".
People who seek to speak on the behalf of largely fictitious "communities" are attempting a to wield a kind of ideological block vote.