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anecdotist

[an-ik-doh-tist] / ˈæn ɪkˌdoʊ tɪst /
NOUN
raconteur
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.

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

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

The anecdotist is not so truthful that cardinals need flush a deeper scarlet, like the roses in Bion's "Lament for Adonis," on account of a scandal resting on the authority of Menage.

From The Library by Andrew Lang

The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.

From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith




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