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SATIRIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("satirist" is a kind of...):
humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)
Instance hyponyms:
Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Juvenal (Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140))
Francois Rabelais; Rabelais (author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553))
Dean Swift; Jonathan Swift; Swift (an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745))
Derivation:
satire (witty language used to convey insults or scorn)
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