ironist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ironist
Example Sentences
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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
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
He is resolutely nonpolitical in an industry bent on producing new versions of “The Daily Show,” an ironist working on the same platform as “Nanette.”
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018
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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