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How to pronounce ironist in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ridiculer, satirist
Type of humorist, humourist
Derivation irony

Examples of ironist

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In thought and feeling, Douglass the ironist had never been in better form.
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If more is meant, Iris Murdoch, a gentle ironist, conceals it too well.
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And there are moments when even an ironist might describe this fuzzy farce as deeply felt.
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To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix is one.
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His skills were those of a polished ironist, but his obsessions seldom progressed beyond puberty.
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Most writers, however, have given less credit to Humbert and more to Nabokov's powers as an ironist.
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About himself, the noted ironist was seldom ironical.
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Besides being brave, Nick is something of an ironist.
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Hamlet is a master ironist, which means he's funny in a way that we, in this Age of Irony, are well suited to appreciate.
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  • Satirist: a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
  • Ironist (n. Ironism) (from Greek: eiron, eironeia) is a term coined by Richard Rorty to describe someone who fulfills three conditions: In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty argues that Proust, Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, and Nabokov, among others, all exemplify Ironism to ...
  • Someone who uses irony in humor