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单词 ironist
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ironist

noun

iro·​nist ˈī-rə-nist How to pronounce ironist (audio)
: one who uses irony especially in the development of a literary work or theme

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The ironist maintained a light touch on the gravest of subjects—the ones that involved the most graves. Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Norm Macdonald was a complicated, often inscrutable guy, one who (mostly) adhered to now quaintly old-fashioned codes of privacy and propriety, a rascally self-mythologizer and a levels-deep ironist. Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021 Paul Wasserman, the bearded ironist who is the head press agent for the tour, managed to sneak a handful of visitors into the Garden. Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 If Diski represents one model for the female ironist, Diane Johnson epitomizes another. Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 Less to the fore in Mr. Prochnik’s treatment is Heine the ironist, who made fun of everybody’s ideals and passions, including his own. Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020 Ambiguous irony lets the ironist and his audience laugh twice: first at the joke, then at whoever doesn’t get it. Dan Brooks, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020 The perennial significance of the Joker has made him an omnipresent reference online, both for sincere fans and for ironists. Dan Brooks, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019 Bertie is an innocent portrayed ironically; Hank is an ironist portrayed sincerely. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1727, in the meaning defined above

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