materialistic
Example Sentences
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Mr. Ennos is hard on the materialistic lifestyle, and this view can be defended.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
He prefers giving flowers, describing the idea of gifting money as "materialistic".
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
The production by the late director Michael Cavanagh, which comes courtesy of San Francisco Opera, is indeed materialistic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025
I realized that I’d been pretty materialistic, a “living in the moment” kind of a thing and not really thinking much about the long term.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2024
It seemed that I simply could not fit into a materialistic life.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing materialistic
Material World: Shopping Lingo
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