aesthete

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

She’s an aesthete run amok, determined to deface anything that doesn’t live up to her impossible standards.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

He added: "Carpenter is above all a brilliant aesthete, her videos and album artwork uniformly inspired."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Ludwig II of Bavaria was a zealous aesthete with enough personal wealth to treat part of what is now Germany as an architectural canvas.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

The British writer-director Peter Strickland is one of contemporary cinema’s last great weirdos, an aesthete and eccentric in an industry that increasingly values invisibility and homogeny.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

The sun was the blessing of the morning, the one celebrating element, an aesthete with no purpose except to shed radiance.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles