How to Use satirist in a Sentence

satirist

noun

• In the aftermath of 9-11, the satirists at The Onion had to be funny again.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 May 2020
• But Holsinger is not at heart a satirist, or at least not a mean one.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• Del Rey wasn’t a poser, the thinking went, so much as a satirist.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• None of this matters in the eyes of partisans and satirists.
  — Dan Zak, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
• Pushing the limits of free expression — isn’t that what any good satirist should do?
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• As is inevitable with truly great satire, the satirist had become a moralist.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2020
• Deighton is not a satirist — except for the occasional sly aside.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• The scene at Annie’s baby shower would be low-hanging fruit for any satirist.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase in his biting Tenth Satire: panem et circenses.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 22 Jan. 2020
• The British satirist Gillray’s lampoons and caricatures took on folly in the court and among the common.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The satirist's objective should be to remind us that truth lies in our reflection.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• What happens to a satirist who sees her darkest visions made real?
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• High fashion satirist guys who’ll soon be in need of chiropractors.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• Might voters choose one of these as a farewell salute to a favorite program – or one of two comedic songs from a popular series or biopic of a beloved satirist?
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• Heinrich Heine, whose poem the statue commemorates, was a satirist and a Jew.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Oliver used some of the TV satirist’s most effective tools — mockery and humor — in his takedown of Sinclair.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2017
• Well, Ishmael, in making that statement, fulfills his obligation as a satirist, as a gadfly, as the court jester.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
• One of its principal founders was Beppe Grillo, a political satirist in the mold of Jon Stewart.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 18 May 2018
• Presented with new evidence, the satirist deferred to the creator.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• A biography of Jonathan Swift alleged that the satirist and cleric nearly burned down the Castle of Dublin—and tried to conceal the incident with a bribe.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• Even the heartbroken new material of folky satirist Father John Misty couldn’t kill the summer fest’s good vibes.
  — Michael Rietmulder, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
• Others swept up in the crackdown include satirist Sanjay Rajoura.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• The power of the novel lies in the strange personal chemistry by which Holleran is at once the celebrator, the satirist, and the elegist of a defining epoch in our history.
  — Alan Hollinghurst, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• Saul, an architect and after-hours satirist, was pragmatic and wisecracking about the whole thing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
• The sharp-toothed satirist’s conservatism wasn’t doctrinaire, our critic writes.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Late-night TV satirists never tire of noting how the president has put on weight in office, despite frequent outings to play golf.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Eight years of clamorous politics and four indictments later, what more can satirists say?
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• The satirist was reminding us of a constant across generations.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 3 Sep. 2023
• The Czech satirist was exploring the harms of the industrial revolution.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024