sybarite

Example Sentences

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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

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

She would be accused of being a sybarite if it weren’t for the conceptual rigor she applies to her aesthetics.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2013

If one compared it with the room in the same building where young Morgan Wallifarro worked at a flat-topped mahogany table, one found the difference between Spartan simplicity and sybarite elegance.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville