Satirist
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who writes satire.
"In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides."
- 2 a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm wordnet
Example
More examples"He is not so much a humorist as a satirist of the Thackeray type — unsparing in his denunciation of shams, affectations, and flimsy pretences of all kinds."
Etymology
From satire + -ist.