anecdotist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 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
In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
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