fabulist
a person who invents or relates fables.
a liar.
Origin of fabulist
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How to use fabulist in a sentence
The fabulist ocean, this inscrutable outer space whales return from, in a metaphorical sense, enchants us with our own inward enigmas.
The Whale Who Will Come Soon - Issue 105: Whale Songs | Rebecca Giggs | September 8, 2021 | NautilusThe fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.
Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour | Winston Ross | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.
Mike Daisey Remembers Steve Jobs a Year After His Death | Mike Daisey | October 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.
Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Revival | Rebecca Miller | June 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is subtitled a "family fable" because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.
The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.
Homer's Odyssey | Denton J. SniderSome of these folk-tales suggest the ingenuity of a fabulist.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayQuerulously he complained that people would not take him seriously, that they treated him as a fabulist.
Lafcadio Hearn | Nina H. KennardIn 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. BartlettLa Fontaine, the fabulist, was buried by the side of Moliere, who died long before him.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. Bartlett
British Dictionary definitions for fabulist
/ (ˈfæbjʊlɪst) /
a person who invents or recounts fables
a person who lies or falsifies
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