fictionist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fictionist
Example Sentences
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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
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
"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
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.
In the slow procession of my struggling fortunes this visit to the West seems important, for it was the beginning of my career as a fictionist.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
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