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• n  someone skilled at conversation

• Biographer Pearson's portrait of Wilde the conversationalist, critic, playboy and playwright is more convincing, though here too, at points, his admiration carries him away.
• Host Bill Maher, TV's nimblest conversationalist, asked his Tuesday panel what party Jesus would join if were he alive today and elicited this straight-faced response from North .
• He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist.

• conversationist
• schmoozer

News & Articles

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• Letter: Things to be admired
  Big things are to be admired, even stupidity. So said Samuel Johnson, 18th century lexicographer, critic, poet and conversationalist. All of which brings to mind regulations, ordinances, procedures and so forth that stultify progress.
  June 12, 2013 - Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal

Quotes

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• Neeraj Kumar in Telugu Portal
  He is going to be super-hit as he is doing what he is best at. He is an intelligent conversationalist and he made it obvious on the show,said Neeraj Kumar, a Delhi-based professional
• Richard Epstein in Monterey County Herald
  He's a great conversationalist and a good listener,says Richard Epstein, a law school professor who was not a close friend. "But he never tips his hand to what he thinks. You feel you're on stage and have to perform. ...... At the end of...
• Jim Nantz in Houston Chronicle
  He is the greatest conversationalist that has been on television, and he is the patron saint of sports commentators,said CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz. "You can put him in context with anyone - Lucille Ball, Ed Sullivan - among the...