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fabulist

[ fab-yuh-list ]

/ ˈfæb yə lɪst /

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noun

a person who invents or relates fables.

a liar.

Origin of fabulist

1585–95; < Middle French fabuliste, equivalent to < fābul(a) fable + -iste -ist

Words nearby fabulist

fabritius, fabry, fabry's disease, fabular, fabulate, fabulist, fabulous, fac., facade, facadism, faccp

Example sentences from the Web for fabulist

The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.

Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour |Winston Ross |May 22, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.

Mike Daisey Remembers Steve Jobs a Year After His Death |Mike Daisey |October 5, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.

Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Revival |Rebecca Miller |June 1, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
It is subtitled a "family fable" because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.

The Best of Brit Lit |Peter Stothard |March 18, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

The great German fabulist, Pfeffel, a blind man, once took Billing's arm and went with him into the garden to take an airing.

Modern Magic |Maximilian Schele de Vere
Edward Moore died; an English fabulist and dramatic writer of considerable note.

The Every Day Book of History and Chronology |Joel Munsell
Querulously he complained that people would not take him seriously, that they treated him as a fabulist.

Lafcadio Hearn |Nina H. Kennard
"Ah, I see," said the fabulist with a wink aside for Jeff's benefit.

Sundry Accounts |Irvin S. Cobb
Boileau was also a candidate, but the first ballot gave the fabulist 70 sixteen votes against seven only for the critic.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 1 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for fabulist

fabulist

/ (ˈfæbjʊlɪst) /

noun

a person who invents or recounts fables

a person who lies or falsifies