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satirist

[ sat-er-ist ]

/ ˈsæt ər ɪst /

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noun

a writer of satires.

one who indulges in satire.

Origin of satirist

First recorded in 1580–90; satire + -ist

OTHER WORDS FROM satirist

self-sat·i·rist, noun

Words nearby satirist

satinpod, satinwood, satiny, satire, satirical, satirist, satirize, satisfaction, satisfactory, satisfice, satisficing behaviour

Example sentences from the Web for satirist

Because 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 |DAILY BEAST
Dieudonné, the ‘performance artist’ banned by the French high court, was not a satirist or comedian of any kind.

The French Were Right to Ban Dieudonné’s Offensive ‘Performance Art’ |Bernard-Henri Lévy |January 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Nobody else can touch her as a satirist, tragedian, and dissector of human behavior.

Maggie O’Farrell’s Book Bag: 5 Favorite Irish Writers |Maggie O’Farrell |July 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
In 1605, the French satirist Thomas Artus published a strange book called The Island of Hermaphrodites.

The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’ |Bee Wilson |October 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

So Portnoy—or so it seemed—was the satirist par excellence, particularly of the American Jewish comedy.

Who Is Philip Roth’s Portnoy Satirizing? |Bernard Avishai |August 28, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Their mode of procedure is shown at a butcher's stall, according to the satirist's view of their patriotic exertions.

Rowlandson the Caricaturist. First Volume |Joseph Grego
But without an appeal to conscience the satirist has no locus standi.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
The mantle of the satirist preacher which had fallen from Horace found no worthy claimant for nearly half a century.

Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman |Frank Justus Miller
But it was above all as a satirist that Mackay excelled during his lifetime.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 |Various
His gifts as a satirist were already known, and he was warmly received by the king, whom he followed to Newark.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for satirist

satirist

/ (ˈsætərɪst) /

noun

a person who writes satire

a person given to the use of satire