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Anecdotal   /ˌænəkdˈoʊtəl/  /ˌænɪkdˈoʊtəl/   Listen
Anecdotal

adjective
1.
Having the character of an anecdote.
2.
Characterized by or given to telling anecdotes.  Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical.  "An anecdotal history of jazz" , "He was at his anecdotic best"





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"Anecdotal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kantor had played before the crowned heads of Europe, the aching heads of American capital, and even the shaved head of a South Sea prince. There was a layout of anecdotal gifts, from the molar tooth of the South Sea prince set in a South Sea pearl to a blue-enamelled snuff-box encrusted with the rearing-lion coat of arms of a very ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... Julius Steinberger had become fast friends, and the genial smoking of cheap tobacco in hall bedrooms tends to frankness of relation, and the various ways in which each had found himself "up against it" in the course of their brief years supplied material for anecdotal talk. ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... passengers; in addition to which, if you are fond of driving, a foible of mine, I confess, it affords an opportunity for an extra lesson on the noble art of handling the ribbons, and at the same time puts you in possession of all the topographical, descriptive, and anecdotal matter relative to the resident gentry and ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle


Words linked to "Anecdotal" :   anecdotic, anecdote, communicative, communicatory


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