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
• 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
• Why wouldn’t Madison Avenue try to get in on that fun and action, seeking to beat satirists to the punchline by making ads that, to some degree, can work as crowd-pleasing sketches in their own right?
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• The label shown in the post is a fabrication created in 2018 by a satirist who produces spoof packages for food products and posts photos of them on social media.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024