monologist
Americannoun
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monologists
plural
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a person who tends to monologue or soliloquize, especially a person who dominates conversation.
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an actor who performs monologues and soliloquies.
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“Eventually I became what I grew up with, which is a folk music act with a funny monologist, making funny intros to songs.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
They called him a monologist, and the man who talked about his father, which is the worst motto ever, the man who talks about his father.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
Bernhard was a monologist fueled by energetic misanthropy, disgust and vitriol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
“He’s done some really good work as a monologist at those correspondents’ dinners — that’s how he qualifies to be on the show,” Seinfeld said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
No one answered and Molly began to wonder how long this strange girl would endure the part of a monologist at college.
From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Speed, Nell
It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
Now two wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professors of elocution — even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained.
From Time Magazine Archive
My friend, indeed, very evidently was a talker—one of those fantastic monologists to whom an audience is little more than a symbol.
From Pieces of Eight by Le Gallienne, Richard
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