fabulist

[ UK /fˈæbjʊlˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who tells or invents fables
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How To Use fabulist In A Sentence

  • He is new to the mystery field, but he has published numerous stories he terms "fabulist" that range from speculative fiction to fantasy to quiet atmospheric horror. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • This whole sequence has a weird kind of fabulistic dream-logic or non-logic to it... Week 39: Like Something That Seeks Its Level
  • The story itself is inspired by a legendary 18 th-century fabulist whose name has become synonymous with delusional behavior.
  • There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
  • He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche.
  • He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream. Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • A subversive Cytherean imagery was next taken up by the poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, friend to Scudery and admirer of Marino.
  • Bialik finds several reasons why his sloppy sourcing was allowed to go on for so long, and writes that there are four conditions that allow fabulists within journalism to work undetected.
  • The Italian fabulist's book sets up a series of interrupted narratives that it doesn't take up.
  • I spot a guy heading for the door who looks exactly like the fabulist Stephen Glass, but it turns out his name is Mike and he's come with his fiancée, Melissa, 32.
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