noun
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a person who writes satire
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a person given to the use of satire
Other Word Forms
- self-satirist noun
Etymology
Origin of satirist
Example Sentences
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“Wake me up in a hundred years, ask me what is happening in Russia,” mused Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a 19th-century satirist, “and I’ll tell you with my usual frankness: We steal, we drink, we make war.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
The London based YouTuber and satirist had used his online voice to attack the Saudi regime.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Juvenal was a satirist, she says, not an objective reporter; he may have been wryly speculating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
Mr Poirson-Atlan told the court on Tuesday that he was a "satirist" who had just wished to put forward "a point of view different to that of the mainstream media".
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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