ironist

[ ahy-ruh-nist ]

/ ˈaɪ rə nɪst /

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noun

a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.

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Origin of ironist

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

Words nearby ironist

ironic, ironical, ironically, ironing, ironing board, ironist, ironize, iron-jawed, iron law of wages, iron lung, iron maiden

How to use ironist in a sentence

He is a sentimental ironist with a taste for self-mockery, a Heine-like humour.
Egoists|James Huneker
He is a spiritual half-brother to Laforgue's Hamlet, shorn of that ironist's humour.
Iconoclasts|James Huneker
There were two essentially dissimilar writers in him, the romanticist and the ironist.
The Book of Masks|Remy de Gourmont
He was the most closely allied with Prosper Mrime, a dilettante and an ironist like himself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 6|Various

In his irony there is a disdain which plays about even the ironist himself.
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken