Anagrams of: OSTIARIES

• the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

• someone who guards an entrance

• ridicule with satire

• open to or abounding in fresh air

• not practical or realizable; speculative

• having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air

• characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

• reflecting optimism

• having the pinkish flush of health

• of blush color

• presaging good fortune

• witty language used to convey insults or scorn

• a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

• a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

• a record or narrative description of past events

• a short account of the news

• a trivial lie

• a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

• An aristocrat

• A wealthy man, especially married, who has sexual affairs with much younger women and spends money on them