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Definition of anecdotal:

  • (adjective) having the character of an anecdote; "anecdotal evidence"
  • (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation";

Sentence Examples:

The author has deliberately contrived certain voids of narrative; and his reader is expected to populate these anecdotal wastes.

By employing the colloquial style, anecdotal illustration, and thrilling incident, the author hopes more successfully to accomplish his purpose.

This theory is seasoned with much anecdotal erudition, heaven knows of what degree of credibility, as to the customs of savage peoples.

A book of brief anecdotal town histories, curious legends, notable events, newspaper clippings, together with a goodly number of illustrations.

There is a considerable body of anecdotal literature of the supernatural, showing to what extent the levity of treatment has gone.

The so-called evidences are often anecdotal and vague, often irrelevant and fallacious, and those Spencer adduced are by no means convincing.

His anecdotal range she declared to be the widest and raciest she had ever encountered in a considerable acquaintance with public characters.

A new edition: with a biographical and topographical preface, and anecdotal annotations, by John Britton, F.S.A., and member of several other societies.

For the first time in American literature we have that chatty, anecdotal, half-scientific, half-sentimental treatment of out-door things that soon was to become so common.

The book is written with the same thorough knowledge of its subject, and the same anecdotal felicity as characterized its author's Royal Mail.

I fear my letters are becoming dreadfully reminiscent and anecdotal, but adventures and wanderings are not for the man who loafs in hospital.

Perhaps including some more anecdotal information about his personality and background that might really interest and enlighten readers outside the more hardcore programming scene?

Finally, all the remaining books relate to that class of anecdotal and didactic literature which spread so wide among Arabic writers through Pahlavi and originating from Indian authors.

The memoirs and anecdotal literature of the period afford numerous instances of the persistence of that desire for cleverness in dealing with secrets, which often brings about amusing incidents.

Captain Glazier's style is particularly attractive, and the discursive, anecdotal way in which the author carries his readers over the continent, from one city to another, is charmingly interesting.

Napoleon was a great man, and the facts that prove his genius are anecdotal: he took five pinches of snuff a minute out of a pocket lined with leather made in his waistcoat.

In the new period of experimental work, this interest was taken as an indication of the unscientific fancies of the earlier age, in which the curious and the anecdotal attracted the view.

In compiling this little volume, I have taken as a foundation some anecdotal reminiscences already published in newspapers by my father, and have added to them from letters and manuscript left by him.

Then, again, there are the anecdotal curiosities, which are exceedingly amusing, especially those of a strictly personal character; and we might easily fill many pages with narrations of this kind, any one of which would abundantly confirm the saw, that truth is stranger than fiction.

The book has, doubtless, proved attractive to readers in different countries by reason of the variety of anecdotal illustrations of life and character which it contains, and the interest which all more or less feel in the labors, the trials, the struggles, and the achievements of others.