sybarite

Example Sentences

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It’s difficult to imagine a worse addition to this oil-and-water mix of high-minded nonconformist cranks and hard-toiling middle-class settlers than a capitalist sybarite.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025

But his admirers should know he remained a sybarite even in his waning days.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2015

Vidal presented himself to the world as a witty sybarite, fearless social critic and hardworking professional writer, and that’s how he wished to be remembered, not as a falling-down drunk and sentimental depressive.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2015

At once confessional and curatorial, the book portrays Oswalt as not just a celluloid sybarite, but someone dead serious about the art.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015

He was not used to travelling on omnibuses, being something of a sybarite who spared nothing to ensure his own comfort.

From The Daffodil Mystery by Wallace, Edgar