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ironist

American  
[ahy-ruh-nist] / ˈaɪ rə nɪst /

noun

  1. a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.


Etymology

Origin of ironist

First recorded in 1720–30; iron(y) 1 + -ist


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But something tells me our battered mood will see a winner in something like gifted ironist Nicolas Keppens’ “Beautiful Men,” a quirky tale of three balding Flemish brothers visiting foggy Istanbul for hair transplants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

Franco is a cool-headed ironist with a flair for oblique narrative and a fascination with the detached worlds of the wealthy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Otto Dix, Beckmann’s fellow ironist, enlisted at once and served in the artillery corps.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

An unnamed ironist had appropriated a quotation from Mao about revolutionary war as “an antitoxin” that “eliminates the enemy’s poison” and offered it as a rebuke of the solemnity of Communist propaganda.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019

A degree in semiotics was not required to see that I was in the presence of an ironist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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