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noun
A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables.
That great fabulist and philosopher Aesop illustrated it by his fable of the bundle of sticks[…]
La Fontaine, the French fabulist, has a tale, La Mandargore, dealing with the erotic impact of the root.
A liar.
The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.