What's the difference between conversationalist and schmoozer?

Conversationalist


Definition:

  • (n.) A conversationist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dudamel is such an exuberant conversationalist that the guards are doubtless essential.
  • (2) Dennis Barker writes: Robert Robinson would have liked to be Dr Samuel Johnson, the combative conversationalist and author who always argued eruditely and implacably, and always expected to win.
  • (3) Next, they continued speaking, but with an adult, male conversationalist.
  • (4) I sent Adrian Deevoy, because he was a terrific conversationalist and a brilliant writer, and Andy Earl, because he was a photographer who worked quickly and didn’t need a studio.
  • (5) With his extraordinary erudition and quick wit, Hobsbawm was one of the greatest historical conversationalists I have ever known.
  • (6) And it is the anecdotal conversationalist who, for better or worse, dominates the unexpurgated autobiography.
  • (7) Shields, it transpires, is a passionate, sometimes bewildering, conversationalist.
  • (8) He described himself as "an unattractive, bespectacled six-footer" but his Cambridge peers recall a brilliant conversationalist and witty female impersonator, whose cabaret turns for the Footlights were matched by enough histrionic ambition to see him play Baldock to Derek Jacobi's Edward II.
  • (9) While in public debate Terraine could sometimes appear opinionated, choleric and even blimpish, his views were sincerely held, and in private he was convivial, humorous and a lively conversationalist.

Schmoozer


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