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humourist

NOUN
  1. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

How To Use humourist In A Sentence

  • The main thing I'd define myself as is as a humourist, and there's so many jokes to be made that haven't been made, because we haven't talked about this stuff, you know? The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
  • I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy. My Discovery of England
  • Gally, who sets up Theophrastus as his model, apparently fails to realize that a "humourist" like Sir Roger verges on individuality. A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725)
  • I became a raconteur, the wittiest humourist, sensitive and worshipping. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • My uncle was known as a humourist; and prove that a man differs from others in one thing, and the world will believe that he differs from them in a thousand. Devereux — Complete
  • _ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
  • I take this to be part of the trade of anybody labelled a humourist and paid as such. My Discovery of England
  • The desire to make the world he knew too well a better place than he found it is just as keen in the wit and humourist of thirty-nine; a desire, moreover, undulled by twenty years of vivacious living. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
  • The lawyer who is a humourist is a man of ten thousand. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
  • This year, Rien à Déclarer Nothing to Declare, directed by the humourist Dany Boon, has sold almost 8m tickets. Cyrille Falisse on film in France
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