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raconteur

[ US /ˌɹækɑnˈtuɹ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌækəntˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person skilled in telling anecdotes

How To Use raconteur In A Sentence

  • He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
  • An actor ( "Midnight Run" and those dog movies) and natural-born raconteur, he takes over Snyder's CNBC slot with the kind of dryly comic anecdotes he's filled three books with. Late Night Unplugged
  • He had a terrific sense of humor and was a great "raconteur"--look it up! Archive 2009-02-01
  • York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva. Latest Articles
  • Literary romanticism and cultural nationalism informed the historical consciousness of regional raconteurs like Hall who looked for American themes within the history of the West.
  • I became a raconteur, the wittiest humourist, sensitive and worshipping. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • He rarely wrote letters, conducting his business on the telephone or, more often, holding court in public houses, where he was an unrivalled raconteur.
  • Burke wants his talk with the irrepressible raconteur to take place as an actionless walkabout. The Speculist: Luckily, we don't face these challenges...
  • Cleaves writes about desperate men, losers and failures, all from the perspective of a bar room raconteur.
  • Describing her role as a "raconteur," she said, "Verlaine's poems are sheer romance. The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS
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