Crossword-Solution: ANECDOTE 8 letters, 117 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Anecdote n. Unpublished narratives.
Anecdote n. A particular or detached incident or fact of an
interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single
passage of private life.

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We have 117 clues for the answer “ANECDOTE”

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"Not published," literally 1 answer
"Reader's Digest" item 1 answer
A short entertaining story about a real incident or person 1 answer
A short story about a real incident or person 1 answer
Amusing icebreaker 1 answer
Amusing short story 1 answer
Amusing tale 1 answer
Bit of oral history 1 answer
Bit of table talk. 1 answer
Brief story that might open a speech 1 answer
Brief, interesting tale 1 answer
Brief, often amusing narrative 1 answer
Component of a wedding toast, often 1 answer
Cosby specialty 1 answer
Cute little story 1 answer
Cute oral story 1 answer
Cute story 1 answer
Emcee's opening gambit. 1 answer
Entertaining brief tale 1 answer
Entertaining little story 1 answer
Entertaining little tale 1 answer
Frequent speech starter 1 answer
Funny little story 1 answer
Funny tale 1 answer
Garrison Keillor specialty 1 answer
Light sketch 1 answer
NARRATIVE of detached incident 1 answer
Offering from a teller 1 answer
Often-amusing story 1 answer
One may begin "Reminds me of the time ..." 1 answer
One related to others 1 answer
Opening of many a speech 1 answer
Part of a best man's toast, maybe 1 answer
Part of a raconteur's repertoire 1 answer
Raconteur's recital 1 answer
Short account 1 answer
Short and amusing story 1 answer
Short entertaining story 1 answer
Short illustration 1 answer
Short reminiscence 1 answer
Short tale that may be personal 1 answer
Short, amusing aside in a memoir, say 1 answer
Short, amusing story 1 answer
Short, amusing tale 1 answer
Short, short story. 1 answer
Sketch not drawn 1 answer
Small yarn? 1 answer
Something often shared at a dinner party 1 answer
Speaker's intro, perhaps 1 answer
Speaker's opening, often 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ANECDOTE (5)

ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson one finds this anecdote: _Cato’s Soliloquy_.—One day Mrs.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Victor had grown hilarious, and was attempting to tell an anecdote about a Mexican girl who served chocolate one winter in a restaurant in Dauphine Street.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Another branch of opinion recommends for bedtime reading short stories, volumes of pithy anecdote, swift and sparkling stuff that may keep one awake for a space, yet will advantage all the sweeter slumber in the end.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Singleton talked more than he had ever done before, explained them all, and told some quaintly humorous anecdote about the production of each.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
She was evidently a copious talker, and now poured forth a breathless stream of anecdote and comment.
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with ANECDOTE (3)

The plural of anecdote is not data.
Marc Bekoff
If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.
Randy E. Barnett Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
Women are always expected to be the gracious hostess, quick with an anecdote and a sprinkling of laughter at others' stories. We are always the ones who have to smooth over all the awkward moments in life with soul-crushing pleasantries. We are basically unpaid geishas. But when we do not fulfill this expectation ( because we are introverted ) people asume we must be either depressed or a cunt".
Amy Schumer The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 70 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).