sybarite
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Cindy may be the opposite of a sybarite, but she knows something about how human beings morph over time.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
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
Andy Serkis is outstanding as the oily Colleoni, a smirking sybarite and crime lord with playboy airs.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2011
He was a sybarite of refined taste, with an exquisite appreciation of the finer and more artistic pleasures of life; and the society of educated and well-bred women was one of the chief of them.
From The New Tenant by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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