ironist

[ ahy-ruh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who uses irony habitually, especially a writer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ironist¹

First recorded in 1720–30; iron(y) ¹ + -ist

Example Sentences

Franco is a cool-headed ironist with a flair for oblique narrative and a fascination with the detached worlds of the wealthy.

From Los Angeles Times

An arsenic-laced confection that shows off Doja Cat’s multiple personalities — a romantic and an ironist, an angel and a devil, a singer fluent in dreamy hooks and a rapper with razor-sharp teeth.

From New York Times

It’s no wonder that Letterman, another ironist whose attitude perpetually commented on and upstaged his own jokes, booked him so often.

From New York Times

Yet she was an ironist — the person you’d least expect to see, say, mounting a fat dude on a massage table and riding him like a mechanical bull.

From New York Times

I’ve done the same when faced with similar “hoaxes” pulled off by entertainers and ironists with no connection at all to art.

From New York Times