How to Use fabulist in a Sentence

fabulist

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Smear Comey as a fabulist through his attorney and his Twitter feed.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
  • Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • 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
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In his scathing response, Dylan and his lawyers blasted the accuser as a lying fabulist.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The House expelled the fabulist George Santos for a fabric of falsehoods, but his lies put no one’s life at risk.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her story remains fractured—saint, prophet, brand, fabulist—but her status as one of modernism’s most disruptive figures is secure.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The author, a naturally playful fabulist, is furloughed here into invention and free play.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024

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