pleasure-seeking
Example Sentences
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He satirized American middle-class life as pleasure seeking and mindless.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Dorian’s pleasure seeking next leads him to a greenhouse displaying the world’s rarest orchid.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2014
Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amelia stood alone and unloved in her family, feared and avoided by all the merry, thoughtless, pleasure seeking circle.
From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
The roads of happiness are not The selfish roads of pleasure seeking, Where cheeks are flushed with haste and hot And none has time for kindly speaking.
From Just Folks by Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert)
