word painter
- a word derived from word painting.
Example Sentences
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Because they lend themselves so readily to the word painter or to the artist's brush, these lurid features are played to the almost complete exclusion of others, only slightly less important.
The old lady was mad and blamed it on the valet, who come up and had to take as sweet a roasting as you ever heard a man get from a lady word painter.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
Dick was a word painter, and he drew such a picture of the game and of a "certain player" in it that a certain player blushed.
From A Boy Knight by Scott, Martin Jerome
He had remarkable adventures all over the world, and was a word painter of artistic power.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell)
So vivid a word painter as Tomlinson acknowledges that the chance rewards which make travel worth while are seldom matters that a reader would care to hear about, for they have no substance.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston