forgettery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of forgettery
Example Sentences
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Americans are usually gentler and more metaphorical than some other peoples in consigning their public figures to forgettery.
From Time Magazine Archive
On too rare occasions, the newsmakers themselves step before the cameras: Kefauver dueling with a faceless Frank Costello, John McClellan patiently at work on Teamster Jimmy Hoffa and his voluble forgettery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoffa himself never took the Fifth, but he displayed what one Senator called "the best forgettery of anyone I have ever known."
From Time Magazine Archive
He may have, at the start, instead of a fine memory, what a learned professor called, "a fine forgettery," but let him persevere to the end.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
I've a good forgettery and if I don't put that down you'd have to write, perhaps.
From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley
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