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 he himself was no sybarite; he was earnest about his invention’s benefits: how weightlessness contributed to health and well-being.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 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

Glory had had the instinct of artistic perception and true values and he had been able to guide her from his sybarite experience.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh