Crossword-Solution: IRONIST 7 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Ironist n. One who uses irony.

We have 31 clues for the answer “IRONIST”

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One who uses words in ways opposite of their literal meaning 1 answer
one who uses irony 1 answer
Wry humorist. 1 answer
Writer whose words are twisted? 1 answer
Writer using incongruity 1 answer
Writer of satire 1 answer
Writer of sardonic humor 1 answer
Writer of ridicule 1 answer
Writer fond of twists 1 answer
Twist expert? 1 answer
Socrates, at times 1 answer
Satire writer 1 answer
Sardonic writer 1 answer
Person who uses opposites to great effect 1 answer
Person given to sarcasm. 1 answer
One who's full of surprises? 1 answer
O. Henry, often 1 answer
O. Henry, notably 1 answer
O' Henry for example 1 answer
Master of sarcasm. 1 answer
Jonathan Swift, notably 1 answer
Jonathan Swift, for example 1 answer
A mordant wit. 1 answer
One using twisted humor 2 answers
O. Henry, e.g. 2 answers
O. Henry, for one 5 answers
Type of writer 7 answers
AN UPSTART WHO MAKES CONCEITED, SARDONIC, INSOLENT COMMENTS 10 answers
A DISPOSITION TO INTERPRET STATEMENTS IN THEIR LITERAL SENSE 10 answers
Satirist 10 answers
FACETIOUS person 36 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with IRONIST (5)

The whole thing is regularity—there’s no self-respect without it.” Soames, the unconscious ironist, fixed his gaze on Bosinney’s tie, which was far from being in the perpendicular; he was unshaven too, and his dress not remarkable for order.
The Forsyte Saga, The Man Of Property John Galsworthy 2001
Moreover, the difficulty of getting at his real opinions is increased by the fact that he was an ironist.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Volume 1 Lucian of Samosata 2002
When the guests seated at the bare board heard the emphatic declaration that the victors are not to be robbed of "the fruits which have cost them so dear," would they have raised quite such "loud and prolonged cheers"? _November_ 12.--The Divine Ironist who surely rules the world seldom leaves Himself without witness.
Impressions And Comments Havelock Ellis 2005
Hardy, the great ironist of English literature of our day, and he is never bitter, for bitterness comes seldom except to the writer who is interested in morals, and morals interest Synge only in so far as they are natural.
Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 2006
And at a period when the distaff of fiction is too often in the hands of men the voice of the romantic realist and poetic ironist, Joseph Conrad, sounds a dynamic masculine bass amid the shriller choir.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks James Huneker 2010

Quotes with IRONIST (3)

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you — even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from…
Neil Gaiman American Gods
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
Neil Gaiman American Gods
[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of the orchids. Around the same time he discovered a fascinating book at the home of his leftist parents, defending Leon Trotsky against Stalin. This was the origin of the vision that the …
Jurgen Habermas
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Used 24 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).