Meanings of ironist in English

Also something of an ironist. He gestured toward a nearby deck chair.

The ironist always wears clothes and an undershirt of mail.

Bishop Meletius is an elegant ironist, in the Alexandrian manner.

He is satirist and ironist even more than historian.

I left feeling I'd been in the presence of an arch ironist - and a bitch to boot.

His nature has been that of a patient psychologist, a minute analyst, and also of a bitter ironist.

Yes, Moloch, being divine, killed as the dog kills, furiously, but time is that transfigured cat, an ironist.

The ironist twisted his mouth.

Art McBride was an ironist.

He thinks of himself as an ironist, permanently alert to the contradictions of the world, a master of negative capability.

Irony is an illuminating mode, but it is seldom pleasant; the public is always suspicious of an ironist, particularly of the Degas variety.

He noted my indecision, and his eyes twinkled-theywere the blue-grayof the Irish, the eyes of a seer or an amiable ironist.

I laugh myself sometimes. There is a bittersweetness in that confession that shows the deep humanity that may be part of the ironist's position.

He has been canonized as a moral subversive, a conscientious ironist, a "holy fool." Shostakovich...made an art of saying nothing memorable in public.

It seems a generation of ironists is finally running out of steam.

I walk over to say hello and anticipate meeting four twenty-five-year-old ironists, but these are not the people I encounter.