1 Voltaire was a famous French satirist.

2 In writing, Leyner is part gonzo journalist, part satirist.

3 A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.

4 He was a social satirist who portrayed the vices and follies of the aristocratic society of the London of his time.

5 Berchoux was a very well known satirist and his illustrators were distinguished men.

6 An eighteenth - century satirist reviewed the troublesome period.

7 Does it matter that a satirist tells his 80,000 Twitter followers that he thinks Starbucks stinks?

8 Thus it was as a satirist that Pope was most effective.

9 To paraphrase the satirist Tom Lehrer, it makes a fellow proud to be a banker.

10 As a political satirist, scurrility was his trade, you might say.

11 This, and my being esteemed a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.

12 He's known as a misogynist, a satirist, a jokester, an attention-seeking bad boy, a creep, an artistic genius, and a man with a history of addiction and abuse.

13 An Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension.

14 He built a reputation in the 1970s as a social satirist.

15 The passage which opens this chapter is an instance of a satirist attacking a higher social class.

16 In his lifetime he was famous, or infamous, as a satirist, a journalist and a political polemicist.

17 Among labouring poets, Mary Leapor will prove a particularly strong instance of a satirist attacking her betters.

18 Back in Vienna he had been bewitched by the viciously witty judgments of the satirist, Karl Kraus.

19 Swift wrote a great deal of poetry, but he is best regarded as a prose satirist.

20 “No man is an island, ” the 17th-century English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest John Donne once said.

21 Gulliver's Travels is generally regarded as a terrific satirical novel written by the great English prose satirist Jonathan Swift.

22 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) by most reckoning is the best English-language satirist ever, and one of the world's greatest as well.

23 Perhaps the first to chronicle this dream was the Greek satirist Lucian.

24 Amanda: It's "The Devil's Dictionary. " It's very funny. Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant American satirist.