anecdotalist
- a variation of anecdotist.
- a word derived from anecdote.
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
Deeley is an anecdotalist who resists making dangerous connections between life's incidents, and may feel that if these two women could be made one, all the right connections would be made for him.
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 Lynd, Robert
