satirist
Origin of satirist
1Other words from satirist
- self-sat·i·rist, noun
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How to use satirist in a sentence
Indeed, not long prior to this, the satirist Samuel Butler had speculated that humans, in their headlong pursuit of automated convenience, were withering into nothing but a “sort of parasite” upon their own industrial machines.
Drugs, Robots, and the Pursuit of Pleasure: Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts | Thomas Moynihan | September 17, 2021 | Singularity HubBirth-order scholars observe that some of history’s great satirists—Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain—were among the youngest members of large families, a pattern that continues today.
What Meghan and Harry's New Daughter Needs to Know About Being a Second-Born | Jeffrey Kluger | June 7, 2021 | TimePryor had yet to become the volatile social satirist who unnerved white industry executives and delighted black audiences.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America | David Yaffe, Scott Saul | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFoul-mouthed chauvinist who flirted with chicks in a hot tub or celebrity-friendly sociopolitical satirist?
Canada’s Subversive Sock Puppet: Ed the Sock Isn’t Afraid to Say Anything | Soraya Roberts | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBecause ultimately Westlake was not this kind of writer, or that kind, not a crime writer, or a satirist, or a comedian.
Donald E. Westlake, The Man With The Getaway Face | Malcolm Jones | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
On Friday, Sept. 12, fans of the political satirist will be in for a special treat.
Bill Maher: 'Sorry J. Law, We're Going to Have to Look at Your Nipples…' | Marlow Stern | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and Savvy | Michael Weiss | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe humorist and satirist lost no opportunity of deriding the new fashion and its followers.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.To what “mute inglorious” satirist we are indebted for this lasting compliment we shall probably never now determine.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanIt must be confessed that Nash is chiefly famous as a caustic pamphleteer and an unscrupulous satirist.
East Anglia | J. Ewing RitchieThe critic steps in between this satirist and the poet—steps in to mediate.
As a satirist Bierce was the best America has produced,xxiv perhaps the best since Voltaire.
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for satirist
/ (ˈsætərɪst) /
a person who writes satire
a person given to the use of satire
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