anecdotic
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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 Sir Walter Armstrong
The second class of old people are not anecdotic; they are rather hearers than talkers, listening to the young with an amused and critical attention.
From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Arnold Bennett
Among the artists identified with this movement there was The pre-Raphaelites. little really in common except in impatience of the prevailing modes of empty academic convention or anecdotic frivolity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
"That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
