anecdotic

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Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

In the Renaissance painters, on the other hand, with their descriptive preoccupations, their literary and anecdotic interests, he could see nothing but vulgarity and muddle.

From Art by Bell, Clive

The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

From John Gabriel Borkman by Archer, William

The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

It can scarcely be said to present the life or character of Lamb in a novel aspect, and even the anecdotic material in which it abounds does not appear altogether fresh.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various