Meaning of dime novelist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who writes dime novels.

Examples

“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.”

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