anecdotist
noun
a collector or teller of anecdotes.
anecdotalist
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a variation of
anecdotist.
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a word derived from
anecdote.
anecdotenouna short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
Example Sentences
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Wry, dryly funny, patrician, a great mimic, a seasoned anecdotalist, handsome into old age, his spoken sentences as beautifully constructed as his written ones, a lover of the crystalline prose and perfect plotting of P.G.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2020
Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe/Beowulf Sheehan Garrison Keillor – anecdotalist, radio host and laureate of small-town wholesomeness – is publishing a book of poetry, 77 Love Sonnets.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011
But there were many other sides to him, such as his sense of the ridiculous and his genius as an anecdotalist.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011
He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable anecdotalist with a nice sense of the ridiculous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prose is his easy chair, in which his genius as a humorist and anecdotalist can expand.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
