Anecdote is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANECDOTE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a brief story
• an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay
• the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting
• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• short amusing account of an incident
• Unpublished narratives.
• A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
• short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

Words related to ANECDOTE

anecdota11 anecdotalism17 anecdotalisms18 anecdotalist15 anecdotalists16 anecdotes12 anecdotic14 anecdotical16 anecdotically21 anecdotist13 anecdotists14

Words that contain ANECDOTE

anecdotes12

How to use ANECDOTE in a sentence

• In relation to this affair a pleasant anecdote is told.
• This anecdote of herself I had in the year 1800, from the mouth of the late Mrs.
• A lady of Washington, however, told me an anecdote which went far to shew that a more intellectual turn in the women, would produce a change in the manners of the men.
• Genial in spirit, full of anecdote and well read, he is very companionable.
• He has a great fund of anecdote, and is able to make a draft on this reserve whenever needed.
• The following anecdote I think I have seen in print, but without the name of the person to whom it happened.
• A somewhat similar anecdote is told of sir George Davis, English consul at Florence at the beginning of the present century.
• I have altered the little details of the anecdote somewhat.
• Doubtless the most frequent platform use of the anecdote is in the pulpit.
• Though he did not name the men to me, yet as the speaking of Lowell was what brought into his Read to tell me this anecdote, I concluded he was one.
• A single anecdote will serve to show that this sentiment was the offspring of genuine gratitude.
• There was a pleasure in hearing him relate the anecdote which the listener already knew by heart, even the events in which the individual had taken a direct part.
• The negroes invest a good deal of money in this way, and we heard in Matanzas a curious anecdote on this head.
• It may be of use as an anecdote for the book you will write.
• This anecdote will serve to show, better than pages of description, the kind of man that Paez was.
• Marking, and hearing these things, I thoroughly appreciated an anecdote told me on board the Asia.
• Here we cannot omit an anecdote, from which the reader may draw what conclusion he pleases.
• The absolute necessity of paying one of these men, in order to secure the forbearance of his colleagues, is illustrated by an anecdote commonly told.
• To these recollections of my own I will add one more anecdote, related by Wendell Phillips.
• I recall a short anecdote which will serve to close the Brucker story.
• At the meeting of which I speak, he vastly amused his hearers by an anecdote.
• The few Hydes whom we have encountered are by this time merely a subject for amusing anecdote.
• The anecdote at page 65 regarding the practice of family prayer fully proves this.
• One anecdote which I had from a near relative of the family may be adduced in illustration of the powerful hold which the cause had upon the views and consciences of Jacobites.
• Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom I was obliged for my information concerning this excursion, mentions a very characteristical anecdote of Johnson while at Plymouth.
• Here let me not forget a curious anecdote, as related to me by Mr.
• An anecdote is related of him illustrative of his character and attainments.
• An amusing anecdote is related of him in connection with the discharge of these duties.

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