dime novelist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who writes dime novels.
Example Sentences
- "Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^([sic]) escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this."
- "She’d heard stories of western gunfighters, heroic figures who might gun down three men before they fired a single shot. She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists."
- "Smoke had always answered her questions honestly because he wanted her to know the truth, not what came from the fevered imaginations of whiskey-addled dime novelists, as he put it."