fictionist
Americannoun
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Origin of fictionist
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Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane—a scene that “outrivals the ability of the fictionist to portray.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017
"Nura" has two older sisters, myself and Mary Blake Woodson, fictionist and long a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The address which will be presented to the great Muscovite fictionist has been written by Mr. James Douglas, and is a masterpiece of sensitive and discriminating eulogy.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
When confronted by the terrible prospect of deprivation, they invented plans worthy of the mental agility of the most famous fictionist.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Towns, Charles B.
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