How to Use fabulist in a Sentence

fabulist

noun
  • One of the wearers is George Santos, the New York fabulist.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Then there's this: Trump is -- and has always been -- a fabulist.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, the fabulist insists, there must be a gesture, a way to recast or rethink.
    David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • These barflies are fabulists spinning tall tales about their own lives.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • Lie with enough creativity and you’ll be thought of as a fabulist.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Powell’s intent is as a way of searing in the minds of readers just how fabulist is the Chairman’s vision.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • In the debate over whether Trump is a habitual fabulist or just a strategic one, Christie seems to be coming down on the side of the former.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Smear Comey as a fabulist through his attorney and his Twitter feed.
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
  • Aesop is perhaps the most famous fabulist in history, but this is not a show about him!
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2018
  • He was dismissed as a fabulist in a congressional report in the 1990s, and the extent of his ties to the junta in Myanmar is unclear.
    New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • One reads as a vividly accurate account of the mind of a brilliant fabulist, a master of entwined fact and fiction.
    David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • After the killing, lawyers for the Yuan family said Mr. Zhao was a fabulist and motivated by revenge.
    Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In his scathing response, Dylan and his lawyers blasted the accuser as a lying fabulist.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The feeding frenzy is intense: The crest of the Santos wave crashes down on me and I am shoved aside by a man with a camera desperate to get his shot of the fabulist turned Congressman.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Roy, with his jet-black hair and occasional mustache, was the animal whisperer, the dreamer, the fabulist, the spark.
    Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But her critics — mostly men — have raised doubts about the details of her recollections and accused her of being a fabulist.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Heylin, like anyone who cares even a little bit about Bob Dylan, takes for granted that his subject is a master fabulist, if not a compulsive liar.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
  • Fleabag was a dubious narrator, a fabulist with delusions of grandeur and a smart-ass retort for everyone.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In Orson Welles' final major feature, F for Fake, the director outs himself as a fabulist.
    Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The Bilderberg Group has been a favorite punching bag of popular internet fabulist Alex Jones.
    oregonlive, 29 July 2021
  • The legendary fabulist and short-story writer also left readers these meditations on the human and the divine.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • This kind of fabulist storytelling can seem escapist, but the mythic qualities of Mohamed’s world bring our own world into sharper focus.
    Yasmine Alsayyad, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But as Harden’s research lays out, the story was spun into a golden legend by the fabulist and fellow missionary Henry Spalding.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • If my work has been influenced by fables, there is also something decidedly fabulist about a peace prize.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Wallace does not lie as compulsively or artfully as the fabulists of some other recent gay novels.
    Jake Nevins, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Glass turned out to be a prolific fabulist who’d inserted fake details in dozens of pieces — a Vanity Fair article about his deception was turned into the 2003 film Shattered Glass.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 12 May 2018
  • As fabulist Hans Christian Andersen famously put it, Bratislava needed no fairy tales, being a fairy tale itself.
    Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Famously, Iman’s career got its start in the ’70s with a risible fiction ginned up by the photographer and inveterate fabulist Peter Beard.
    New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Cheever was a deliberate compulsive fabulist, i.e., a liar — and was charming.
    Jordan Reife, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, fabulist, and critic residing in San Francisco.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2009

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