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humorist

[ UK /hjˈuːmɔːɹˌɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈhjumɝəst, ˈhjumɝɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

How To Use humorist In A Sentence

  • Humorist Gene Weingarten visits Battle Mountain, Nevada and describes how the "Armpit of America" grows on him. [washingtonpost.com]
  • Except that it has only eight lines, the triolet is also difficult to describe but a nice example of one is aptly titled "Triolet" and written by the American newspaperman and humorist Don Marquis (1878 — 1937), and is taken from his book Dreams & Dust (1915). “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
  • You'll meet authors and artists, mothers and fathers, cops and lawyers, gamers and hackers, cooks and waitresses, humorists and essayists.
  • At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
  • At the other end of the vertebrate scale, hominoids have similarly provided the butt for many a joke, while Darwin himself has not escaped completely the humorists' pen or pencil.
  • As a syndicated cartoonist, I've seen my published ideas later appear in eerily similar reiterations in other comics and spoken near-verbatim by nationally recognized humorists (to the point where scores of readers and viewers alerted me, offended and outraged on my behalf). The Riff: From 'SOUTH PARK' to 'POOCH CAFE': When a sense of plagiarism plagues comedy
  • As humorist Kin Hubbard once put it, "We'd all love to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. Tom Matlack: The Top Ten Good Men Politicians
  • Stephen Leacock ( 1869 - 1944 ) was the enormously popular Canadian humorist in the English - speaking world.
  • Later, when other humorists stepped into her territory, she remained the funniest and dearest of them all.
  • Chesterton, mystique, mousquetaire de la plume, miroir redresseur de nos travers déformants, humoriste paradoxal et décapant, reste à redécouvrir. Pour le réenchantement du monde - Une introduction à Chesterton
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