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materialistic
adjective as in thinking mainly about physical things
Example Sentences
Communist regimes rejected Romantic and Freudian theories alike and, in Mr. Delbourgo’s words, attacked collectors’ “materialistic love of things and social status.”
The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles.
"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.
Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, meant to make us squirm as they uncover our insecurities and the faults in our materialistic facades.
"I don't have anything particularly sentimental, it's all materialistic, it can be replaced when it gets broken."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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