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

Mr. Guzmán, in contrast, emerged in court on Tuesday as much less of a sybarite.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018

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

Or from a creamy pedestal the marble features of some ancient sybarite regarded without surprise this modern richness based upon the past.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French