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
Piersoll, recalling that the anecdotist had killed other salmon in his time, made a hasty adieu and went to his hostess, who lingered in the drawing room with the younger men.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon
The ancient anecdotist further says that "the thing was not known until after Plautianus's death."
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
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