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Meanings of sybarite in English

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sibarita

A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.

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        Usage of sybarite in English
        1
        Surely this selfish Taunton sybarite was the prosaic ideal of Hamlet's words:-
        Sabbath in Puritan New England
        2
        Rarely has the ruthlessness of the pure sybarite been so amply illustrated.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Perhaps it is, to the heaven of the modern sybarite, the ethical voluptuary.
        Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
        4
        Altogether the walk was not a pleasant one for the sybarite.
        Red Money
        5
        With all her devotion she was something of a sybarite and liked repose.
        The Women of the French Salons
        6
        He had a sybarite's eye for beauty, and an intense admiration for it.
        Opening a Chestnut Burr
        7
        The luxurious sybarite could not help the stings of conscience, the odor he might.
        What Can She Do?
        8
        Under Khaled's directions the group of sybarite youths took up their positions once more.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        9
        He was undoubtedly a sybarite, yet he evidently possessed rare energy and executive force.
        The Iron Trail
        10
        To Marie it was more luxurious than a sybarite's jacuzzi.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        11
        He was not a sybarite, but he preferred the society of Mrs. Lansing's guests.
        Ranching for Sylvia
        12
        You know, my dear John, that I am a bit of a sybarite- agourmet
        Rosmersholm
        13
        I can promise you a fair but by no means sybarite feast-goodmorning, Nicholas Vassilitsky.
        The Book of All-Power
        14
        Here and there a curtain of gaudy chintz, half drawn, marked the resting-place of a sybarite.
        The Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
        15
        Is not the imperfect sybarite to be met with even in Paris itself, that intellectual metropolis?
        The Magic Skin
        16
        This place made the old tower that M. Tynar lived in look like a sybarite's palace.
        The Hyperion Cantos
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