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sybaritic

[sib-uh-rit-ik] / ˌsɪb əˈrɪt ɪk /


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The son of wealthy Venezuelan Marxists, Ramírez quaffed champagne and chased women like the most sybaritic of bourgeois youth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

Say this much for Damien Chazelle: He shows his audience exactly what he’s giving them within the first few minutes of “Babylon,” his bruised, black-eyed valentine to Hollywood’s sybaritic heyday.

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2022

In both episodes, Mr. Bogdanovich, always a wicked mimic, played to the hilt a sybaritic, smoking-jacket-clad, thinly veiled incarnation of Hugh Hefner.

From New York Times Jan. 6, 2022

The ever-prescient Eve spent her formative years living this dry observation with sybaritic relish, waking up the next day to write it down.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2021

He addressed him with the proper degree of ferocity, telling him that he was a scoundrelly opportunist, a sybaritic barbarian, a disgrace to his upbringing and his ancestors, “AND”—and he paused in weighty emphasis—“a very...bad...dog!”

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford




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