anecdotist
Example Sentences
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An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gifted anecdotist replied with a long laugh, then cried, 'Good-night, young ladies!' and sank peacefully to slumber.
From The Odd Women by Gissing, George
The ancient anecdotist further says that "the thing was not known until after Plautianus's death."
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
