Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is given to satire, especially a writer of satirical works.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who indulges in satire; especially, the writer of a satire or satirical composition.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who writes satire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
Examples
“His job as a satirist is to be anarchic to the end.”
“Even so, the key to his genius as a satirist, is that he doesn”
“Even so, the key to his genius as a satirist, is that he doesn't feel at home anywhere.”
“I mean, his job as a satirist is to sit there and say, yup, 10 million people turned up.”
“But before TDS, Stewart was not known as a satirist, certainly not in a Paul Krassner/Barry Crimmins/Whitney Brown way.”
“ORourke, described as a satirist and hailed for his irreverence, said he wouldnt be attempting to write anything funny for a while as Now is not the time for jokes.”
“The story I tell is from Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. a satirist is a good place to find a UU story....”
“Helen Convolvulus; the former, though a baronet and a satirist was a banker and a man of business: -- he looked very distastefully at the”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
“The satirist is the man who carries men's enthusiasm further than they carry it themselves.”
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
“[9] Archilochus could not have been called a satirist in the correct sense of the word.”
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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