fictionist
Americannoun
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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
To the pure fictionist it would necessitate irksome notation; the mere observer would hardly perceive its fictional value.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
No doubt, also, there was a little spice of boyish mischief in this; and something of the fictionist, for it enabled him to make a strong impression on his audience.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
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