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UK
/hjˈuːmɔːɹˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˈhjumɝəst, ˈhjumɝɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈhjumɝəst, ˈhjumɝɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
How To Use humorist In A Sentence
- Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude.
- A humorist probably doesn't ‘play’ much, but he's happy to be working.
- She was herself a humorist -- writing entertaining light verses -- and a vivacious talker 'uniting,' it was said, 'strong common sense with a lively imagination' and a crisp epigrammatic phrase .... Archive 2009-03-01
- The products of a skilled and gifted humorist, are often funny and almost always readalbe.
- He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
- The smug satire of liberal humorists debases our comedy — and our national conversation. Cheap Laughs
- As for the humorist-author, can the book he is jerry-building sell anywhere near so well as he almost desperately counts on?
- American humorist Erma Bombeck wrote "The grass is always greener over the septic tank. Perfect plants to place over septic systems
- Though he never really laughed, and was generally absolutely grave, my brother had an incredibly keen sense of fun, and in conversation could far outmaster or "walk over the head" of any humorist whom I ever met. Memoirs
- He influenced a generation aesthetic judgment fashion with unexpected and dangerous artistic conception and innovative format and humoristic art style.