storyteller
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- noun
- /ˈstɔːrɪˌtɛlər/
- Offensive
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cuentista
- Everyone knew the storyteller had a knack for embellishing the truth to weave a more compelling narrative.
Examples
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Don't believe everything you hear or read... lots of storytellers at CIM, as we all should know by now.
Blog text (10) -
But individual racists aren't the best storytellers and never have been.
Blog text (30) -
-You are a good storyteller.
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Ah, Jacob, you are a storyteller.
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The storyteller was... ...so used to his fantasies that... ...no matter how good his reality was, it was never enough.
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If he'd been asked, he would have said he was not a storyteller.
Fiction book (1995) -
The critic Ann Banfield explains: "There is only one form open to the writer intent on creating a lying storyteller."
Academic text (1994) -
But in the tradition of storytelling, the listener-reader cannot be left alienated from the story or from a trickster storyteller.
Academic text (1997) -
The storyteller wove an elaborate tale of adventure and deceit that captivated the audience.
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In his latest performance, the storyteller spun a web of lies that had everyone second-guessing what was real.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who often says things that are not true
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A person who often lies and makes up stories to impress or trick people
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5.5
A person who tells small, often harmless lies about unimportant things
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A person who tells made-up or imaginary stories, often as if they were true
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7.1
A person who makes up stories to trick people
A person who makes up false or exaggerated stories and says they are true
A person who tells lies to trick or amuse people
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
The word storyteller can also mean someone who makes up stories to trick others, because story can be a 'made-up tale'; so a storyteller in this sense is a person who tells lies.