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How to pronounce humourist in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms humorist
Type of entertainer
Has types card, wit, ironist, lampooner, parodist, punster, ridiculer, satirist, wag
Derivation humour

Examples of humourist

humourist
Anything by P.J. O'Rourke, who is a journalist first and a humourist second, is good.
From the badlanguage.net
If you value Waugh as a humourist above all, this is the one for you.
From the guardian.co.uk
My greatest ally in the art of not winning is the late HarperCollins editor and humourist, Patricia Parkin.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is understated and unassuming, a thinker, observer and a sly humourist who never seems or behaves obviously presidential.
From the express.co.uk
He plays funky blues guitar with a Tom Waits-like physicality and plays the audience with the charm of an assured storyteller and humourist.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
He was at the time Israel's most conspicuous humourist and an icon of the generation that fought in the 1948 war and created the new Hebrew culture.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
A dazzling mimic, a puckish humourist, the Serb may well be but there are times when he operates on a fine line between the gut-deep excitement of his game and a certain darkness of spirit.
From the dailymercury.com.au
The main thing I'd define myself as is as a humourist, and there's so many jokes to be made that haven't been made, because we haven't talked about this stuff, you know?
From the guardian.co.uk
But he was also an editor, literary critic, and a humourist who wrote six decent mystery novels and three volumes of short stories, starting in the late 1920s.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Humorist: someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
  • A humorist is a person who writes or performs humorous material. The material written and/or performed by humorists tends to be more subtle and cerebral than the material created by stand-up comedians and comedy writers. ...
  • (Humourism) Humorism, or humoralism, was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. ...
  • Alternative spelling of humorist