;Posted on 05/29/2015 4:38:02 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
fictioneer
noun
1. someone who writes fiction especially in quantity and without high standards.
Origin:
1650s, from Latin fingere, The word is used generally to refer to any writer of fiction but often specifically to one who writes with little concern for literary quality.
Related forms:
The words effigy, feign, and figment are among others that trace back to that Latin verb.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Our magnificent Secretary of State and noted fictioneer, John Kerry, was a war hero wounded in Vietnam.
Here is a word you probably have never used but one you will enjoy. Have at it class.
How could I not know that!!
The group opposed to the “Sad Puppies” are a bunch of science fiction fictioneers.
Mrs. Clinton, noted liar, fictioneer
Selling access like a crazy auctioneer
Even Barry couldn’t block it
Hillary’s the Davy Crockett
Of corruption; she’s a true pioneer
In the movie “Tombstone”, Doc Holliday mockingly refers to Johnny Ringo as “the dealdiest pistoleer since Wild Bill”, but that exchange probably never happened — Hollywood is filled with fictioneers.
Too true, and your use of the word is technically astute.
Ty Burr has an excellent article in the GLOBE about the issue of Sad Puppies that deals most helpfully with the toxicity of web dialogue and gives good advice on dealing with trolls.
I am looking for a more expanded use of the term, “fictioneer.” Consider Hillary’s emails or Brian Williams’ imaginings. Surely Obama pamphleteers the globe with his fantasies.
Have I run off the track?
wrong definition....fictioneer: Democrat
Seeing as no one is willing to take the blame I am thinking that TOTUS is a fictiioneer Puppeteer. and POTUS is the puppet
Where’s Hillarys picture?
Once the authors of renown
Start churning out”Best Sellers”
The quality seems to trickle down
To Literary cellars.
King, and Grishom, Clancy and DeMille
Once they received a crown,
Began releasing books at the will
Of the Publishers downtown
One blended to the next, as if
Their sharp minds had worn down
Till of fictioneers we caught a whiff
In the shape of Sandra Brown.
Dang, now I can’t come up with something original.
Plumed Pen Award
Captain Obvious Award
satire award
Along came a Dem fictioneer
A regular red pioneer
Hope and change was the theme
Of this creepy Marxist dream
As he leads his mob from the rear.
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