conversationist
IPA: kɑnvɝsˈeɪʃʌnɪst
noun
- Someone skilled in the art of conversation.
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Examples of "conversationist" in Sentences
- He's a conversationist who saw this devastation for himself in Indonesia.
- I find it very hard to keep focus however the guy last night was a self conversationist.
- A good shrugger in Italy is admired, just as a good conversationist is in England, or a good stump orator in America.
- As an author, therefore, he is sententious; as a conversationist, loose and verbose; -- or the reverse of this may be true.
- Macaulay, on all festive occasions, proved himself as elegant a conversationist as he was a writer; his tone was thoroughly
- Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull.
- Richard Sharpe, the "conversationist" as he was called in London, kept a regular book of entry, in which he recorded where and before whom he had uttered severally his choice sayings.
- It will have been perceived that Miss Fotheringay, though silent in general, and by no means brilliant as a conversationist, where poetry, literature, or the fine arts were concerned, could talk freely, and with good sense, too, in her own family circle.
- He is a cautious conversationist, as might be expected of one who has so deeply delved into the most cautious of all professions, but in the mind of the thoughtful reader this should add to the value of his utterances, which, as expressed in the following columns, were carefully revised by him before going into type.
- Nora was a woman to laugh and chat with; Nora was kind and gracious, and gentle too; Nora was amiable as well as witty; charming in manner, piquant in expression, inimitable at an anecdote, with never-failing resources, a first-rate lady-conversationist, if I may use so formidable a word -- in fact, a thoroughly fascinating woman; but Marion!
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