anecdotist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of anecdotist
Example Sentences
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He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
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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.
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Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
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The gifted anecdotist replied with a long laugh, then cried, 'Good-night, young ladies!' and sank peacefully to slumber.
From The Odd Women by Gissing, George
Rattenden was an amusing anecdotist and had amassed a prodigious amount of raw material for his craft.
From Septimus by Locke, William John
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