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yarn spinner
noun as in narrator
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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