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materialistic

adjective as in thinking mainly about physical things

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The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles.

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"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.

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Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, meant to make us squirm as they uncover our insecurities and the faults in our materialistic facades.

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"I don't have anything particularly sentimental, it's all materialistic, it can be replaced when it gets broken."

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He cares little about materialistic notions of success.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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