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anecdotical

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by or given to telling anecdotes
    an anecdotal history of jazz
    he was at his anecdotic best
    anecdotal conversation

How To Use anecdotical In A Sentence

  • This stuff is anecdotical compared to his, how you say, "known unknowns". Whoops! McCain Accidentally Reveals Flaw In Attack On Obama Over Iran
  • In fact most populations excluding East Eurasians and derived, who aparently suffered a greater bottleneck than the rest have both clades in non-anecdotical ammounts. Neanderthal DNA
  • Tunbridge, or as old folks still call it, "the Wells," was a gay, anecdotical resort of the last century, and about as different from the fashionable haunts of the present, as St. James's is to Russel Square, or an old English mansion to the egg-shell architecture of yesterday. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829
  • Drama -- anecdotical papers on Napoleon and General Jackson and the United The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
  • You know, Betty, I think anecdotically they sort of have known this for some time that there may be some benefit from actually using the birth control pill in terms of warding off ovarian cancer. CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2008
  • Mr. James Jennings has favoured us with a copy of his _Ornithologia; or the Birds_, a poem; with copious _Notes; _ &c. The latter portion is to us the most interesting, especially as it contains an immense body of valuable research into the history and economy of birds, in a pleasant, piquant, anecdotical style, without any of the quaintness or crabbedness of scientific technicality. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829
  • The pictorial representations are replete {287} with variety, and the literary illustrations full of a pleasant gossipping anecdotical character. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
  • In this work, a part of which is, so far as it extends, a careful compilation from an extensive series of books, the great order mammalia, or, rather, a few of its subjects, is treated anecdotically. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • Dr. Sloper had travelled but little, and he took the liberty of not believing everything this anecdotical idler narrated. Washington Square
  • In his anecdotically fascinating review of three books on the life of Kim Philby and the Cambridge University spy ring [ "The Fabulous Five," NYR, January 12] Noel Annan leaves the impression that if it were not for John Cairncross (one of the "faithful servants" of the KGB) and his access to Ultra at Bletchley, England, the "rout" of German tanks by the Russians at Kursk could have gone the other way. Serving the KGB
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