anecdotist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of anecdotist
Example Sentences
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An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anecdotist is not so truthful that cardinals need flush a deeper scarlet, like the roses in Bion's "Lament for Adonis," on account of a scandal resting on the authority of Menage.
From The Library by Lang, Andrew
As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
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