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sybarite

[sib-uh-rahyt] / ˈsɪb əˌraɪt /
NOUN
voluptuary
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NOUN
hedonist
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Cindy may be the opposite of a sybarite, but she knows something about how human beings morph over time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

All too often Ive comes off less as a visionary than a sybarite.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

The painting is singular in Johns’s oeuvre, in part because its title hints at a narrative, one about a sybarite who likes to drink and party.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021

At once confessional and curatorial, the book portrays Oswalt as not just a celluloid sybarite, but someone dead serious about the art.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015

He was a sybarite of refined taste, with an exquisite appreciation of the finer and more artistic pleasures of life; and the society of educated and well-bred women was one of the chief of them.

From The New Tenant by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)




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