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Definition of anecdotage in English: anecdotagenounˈanɪkdəʊtɪdʒˈænəkˌdoʊdɪdʒ mass noun1Anecdotes collectively. 轶事集 a number of reports cannot be dismissed as anecdotage 这些报道不能被斥为一堆轶事。 Example sentencesExamples - He is as much in his anecdotage as anyone I have interviewed, and they are not exactly new stories.
- When well-loved artists and entertainers die there are formal tributes, interviews with friends, a gush of doting anecdotage, but that's as far as it goes.
- In the choices a lifetime offers he had ultimately left himself nowhere to turn except to the consolations of talk - anecdotage at its richest, in full flood.
- More anecdotage - I know that at least one domestic violence charity finds it very hard to get major corporate charitable sponsorship because it's perceived as ‘breaking up homes’.
- The lively scientific spat between Professors Higgs and Hawking has trailed a predictable plethora of anecdotage in its wake, much of it designed to illustrate Hawking's ‘mischievous sense of humour’.
- Knowing the facts's very important; knowing the people helps (there's a fair bit of anecdotage and I-was-there-ism in Hitchens's journalism).
- Surely so important a figure in Indian cinema and so charismatic a star deserves something better than anecdotage, gossip and platitudes for the story of his life, career and times.
- The question raised by this display, and by Hodgson's alienated anecdotage on stage, is: can he be for real?
- News From No Man's Land mixes the anecdotage of the earlier books with a much more explicit and opinionated analysis of the state of television news.
- More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand.
- He scatters anecdotage as he guides you through his ‘houses’.
- He was alarmed that among non-fiction publications based on PhD theses, anything that seeks to move beyond anecdotage to argument and analysis becomes fair game for reviewers.
2humorous Old age, especially in someone who is inclined to be garrulous. 〈幽默〉老年饶舌期（用于多话老人） it is not within many of us to emulate such a feat in our anecdotage Example sentencesExamples - The fruity little tale he told about the double entendre he had committed regarding the French prime minister said it all: this was an elder statesman in his anecdotage.
- Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
- As Disraeli said: ‘When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.’
- In his anecdotage, with so many of his old friends dead, he's discovered a new way of getting to sleep.
- There is the tendency, to be found in all politicians in their anecdotage, to make copious reference to her own previous speeches of five, 10 and 20 years ago.
Definition of anecdotage in US English: anecdotagenounˈanəkˌdōdijˈænəkˌdoʊdɪdʒ 1Anecdotes collectively. 轶事集 a number of reports cannot be dismissed as anecdotage 这些报道不能被斥为一堆轶事。 Example sentencesExamples - The question raised by this display, and by Hodgson's alienated anecdotage on stage, is: can he be for real?
- Surely so important a figure in Indian cinema and so charismatic a star deserves something better than anecdotage, gossip and platitudes for the story of his life, career and times.
- More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand.
- He scatters anecdotage as he guides you through his ‘houses’.
- He is as much in his anecdotage as anyone I have interviewed, and they are not exactly new stories.
- When well-loved artists and entertainers die there are formal tributes, interviews with friends, a gush of doting anecdotage, but that's as far as it goes.
- The lively scientific spat between Professors Higgs and Hawking has trailed a predictable plethora of anecdotage in its wake, much of it designed to illustrate Hawking's ‘mischievous sense of humour’.
- He was alarmed that among non-fiction publications based on PhD theses, anything that seeks to move beyond anecdotage to argument and analysis becomes fair game for reviewers.
- News From No Man's Land mixes the anecdotage of the earlier books with a much more explicit and opinionated analysis of the state of television news.
- Knowing the facts's very important; knowing the people helps (there's a fair bit of anecdotage and I-was-there-ism in Hitchens's journalism).
- More anecdotage - I know that at least one domestic violence charity finds it very hard to get major corporate charitable sponsorship because it's perceived as ‘breaking up homes’.
- In the choices a lifetime offers he had ultimately left himself nowhere to turn except to the consolations of talk - anecdotage at its richest, in full flood.
2humorous Old age, especially in someone who is inclined to be garrulous. 〈幽默〉老年饶舌期（用于多话老人） Example sentencesExamples - As Disraeli said: ‘When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.’
- The fruity little tale he told about the double entendre he had committed regarding the French prime minister said it all: this was an elder statesman in his anecdotage.
- In his anecdotage, with so many of his old friends dead, he's discovered a new way of getting to sleep.
- There is the tendency, to be found in all politicians in their anecdotage, to make copious reference to her own previous speeches of five, 10 and 20 years ago.
- Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
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