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

He is a sentimental ironist with a taste for self-mockery, a Heine-like humour.

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He is a spiritual half-brother to Laforgue's Hamlet, shorn of that ironist's humour.

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There were two essentially dissimilar writers in him, the romanticist and the ironist.

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He was the most closely allied with Prosper Mrime, a dilettante and an ironist like himself.

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In his irony there is a disdain which plays about even the ironist himself.

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