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anecdotic
adjective as in descriptive
Example Sentences
He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.
In the days of Count Ernst there was current, among anecdotic persons, a wondrous story of Duke Henry the Lion, which at that period, as a thing that had occurred within the memory of man, found great credence in the German Empire.
Doran.—Memories of our Great Towns; with Anecdotic Gleanings concerning their Worthies and their Oddities.
The memoirs before us are founded upon the papers and documents which he left behind him at his death, consisting of anecdotic and biographical fragments, accounts of his divers missions and campaigns, and the substance of many extraordinary secrets intrusted to him as a general and a statesman.
You see, Julia is like a game of tennis, or a pleasant picture of the anecdotic kind.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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