voluptuary

Example Sentences

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The blasé voluptuary in his livery act was always just a personal amusement, a playful outward expression.

From Washington Post

Colman won last year’s best-actress Oscar for her portrayal of another British monarch in “The Favourite,” the eccentric and voluptuary Queen Anne, but Elizabeth, aloof to the point of refrigeration, is a different proposition altogether.

From New York Times

There is a price for its voluptuary nature: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is demanding of water and food, pest-prone, and difficult to overwinter indoors.

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Julián, a hacking, aging voluptuary, chastises a couple he knows for avoiding him in public because of their inability to face his illness.

From New York Times

Certainly there was personal enmity between Hamilton and the bankrupt “voluptuary” he called Burr.

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