voluptuary

Example Sentences

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Julián, a hacking, aging voluptuary, chastises a couple he knows for avoiding him in public because of their inability to face his illness.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2017

Behind his impassioned rages, his enormous ambition, his gigantic self-confidence, there lay not the indulgent ease of a voluptuary, but the trivial tastes, the conventional domesticity, of the petty-bourgeois.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2016

Gumprecht Weiss — we learn his name later on — had once been a voluptuary but in middle age now prefers an ascetic, philosophical life.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2015

You probably don't picture a notorious voluptuary, a man who just last year was chowing on double burgers right before a conference on obesity.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2010

Mr. Buckle speaks of "the incredible baseness of that ignoble voluptuary who succeeded George III. on the throne."

From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Bradlaugh, Charles