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sybarite | sybaritic |

As a noun sybarite

is a person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.

As a adjective sybaritic is

of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent.

sybarite

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
  • * 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
  • Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
  • * 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
  • Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.

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    sybaritic

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent
  • Having the character of or dedicated to excessive luxury