ironist

[ahy-ruh-nist]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ironist¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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An arsenic-laced confection that shows off Doja Cat’s multiple personalities — a romantic and an ironist, an angel and a devil, a singer fluent in dreamy hooks and a rapper with razor-sharp teeth.

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It’s no wonder that Letterman, another ironist whose attitude perpetually commented on and upstaged his own jokes, booked him so often.

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Yet she was an ironist — the person you’d least expect to see, say, mounting a fat dude on a massage table and riding him like a mechanical bull.

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