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bon vivant
noun as in one who lives well
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Later, because his robot brain is convinced she works too hard, he draws a rose-petal-strewn bath for her, holding a champagne flute aloft like a knowledge-engineered bon vivant.
As far as Wayne goes, Affleck has never played the suave, sophisticated bon vivant before onscreen.
They offer complex visions of a young artist dead before his time, of a persecuted gay poet, and of a bon vivant felled by stroke.
Since arriving in Washington in 1990, Boehner has played up his bon vivant image.
That is, until he decides to adopt a bon vivant alter ego—the ascot-wearing, chain-smoking Francois.
Mr. K— was a bon vivant as well as an accomplished teacher; he liked a sly illusion no less than a careful preparation.
The whole office wishes the happy landlord 'bon vivant' until we can do better by him.
However, the Mayor was a bon-vivant, and I do not wish to have a better set of bins to pick from.
He once bluntly told a bon-vivant gentleman to “Live on sixpence a day, and earn it!”
He was distinctly a bon vivant, but withal an upright, conscientious and capable minister.
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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bon vivant, such as: connoisseur, aficionado, connoisseur of food, connoisseur of wine, enthusiast, and epicure.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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