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yarn spinner

noun as in narrator

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Coakley supposedly has a quick wit and is quite the yarn-spinner, but these attributes are rarely seen in public.

Again Ebbington saw his chance, and, like the born yarn-spinner he was, took immediate advantage of it.

Because we are depending, in large part, on what Bahama Bill has to tell, and he's the worst yarn spinner I ever ran across.

Miss King dramatized her novel, as she is anxious to become famous as a playwright, "not as a mere yarn-spinner."

From these stages he rose to be a graduate of the "college" of the yarn-spinner--the village store, where he became clerk.

He recognized her in a moment, and the scene which followed tried all the powers of the old yarn-spinner's descriptive faculties.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to yarn spinner, such as: author, chronicler, novelist, writer, raconteur, and reporter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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