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

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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It has substituted in its place a hedonism which promises a material ease and luxury, yet shies away from all the historic implications which a “voluptuary system” — and all its social permissiveness and libertinism — implies.

From New York Times

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

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

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