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
If Mourinho once felt like the ironist puppeteer at moments like this, he has long commuted down into the proverbial messy bitch who lives for the drama.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 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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