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Definition of sybarite in English: sybaritenoun ˈsɪbərʌɪtˈsɪbəˌraɪt A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury. Example sentencesExamples - He is essentially a sybarite, renting a spacious palazzo by the Grand Canal, eating, drinking and, separated from his wife in England, womanising with zest.
- As a flat, infertile protectorate of Britain, isolated at the northern fringe of the Leeward chain, you might expect it to offer nothing to sybarites, particularly in matters of food.
- This is Naldhera perched way above sea level, with majestic views of the Shimla ridge, offering nature for the sybarite, hiking and rafting for the athlete and golf for those who are into handicaps and hole-in-ones.
- Australian TV executives were wary of such a project and its unabashed depiction of such swaggering women but Riley and Turner persevered and eventually won the day, delivering a classy, confident spoof of suburban sybarites.
- Hope it's repeated as we'll be out being sybarites.
- I've encountered people who lived as self-involved sybarites for years but assumed a new Christian identity in middle age.
- Luxury amid coastal wilderness is beguiling but concerns locals, who fear too many sybarites will spoil the coast.
- Call me an idle sybarite, but I value this capability.
- He cannot go on being a mendacious sybarite inside and outside Parliament, and get away with it.
- They were sybarites who enjoyed power and indulgence.
- Intermediates who want to build their confidence and technique on a big network of connected pistes should look elsewhere, but for sybarites, party people and adrenaline freaks, it's the place to be.
- Utterly sublime even for a dedicated sybarite.
- When a man lives in a multi-million dollar mansion and makes a hundred million a year, his kids are more than likely to become drug-using sybarites.
- They encouraged him, while in the city, to live like a sybarite.
- Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
- Spectacle is the best word to describe the show; as it would enthuse the most jaded sybarite.
Synonyms hedonist, sensualist, voluptuary, libertine, pleasure seeker, playboy, epicure, glutton, gourmand, gastronome French bon vivant, bon viveur
Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting an inhabitant of Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, noted for luxury): via Latin from Greek Subaritēs. Definition of sybarite in US English: sybaritenounˈsɪbəˌraɪtˈsibəˌrīt A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury. Example sentencesExamples - Intermediates who want to build their confidence and technique on a big network of connected pistes should look elsewhere, but for sybarites, party people and adrenaline freaks, it's the place to be.
- He cannot go on being a mendacious sybarite inside and outside Parliament, and get away with it.
- Australian TV executives were wary of such a project and its unabashed depiction of such swaggering women but Riley and Turner persevered and eventually won the day, delivering a classy, confident spoof of suburban sybarites.
- Spectacle is the best word to describe the show; as it would enthuse the most jaded sybarite.
- Utterly sublime even for a dedicated sybarite.
- Hope it's repeated as we'll be out being sybarites.
- Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
- I've encountered people who lived as self-involved sybarites for years but assumed a new Christian identity in middle age.
- As a flat, infertile protectorate of Britain, isolated at the northern fringe of the Leeward chain, you might expect it to offer nothing to sybarites, particularly in matters of food.
- They were sybarites who enjoyed power and indulgence.
- Luxury amid coastal wilderness is beguiling but concerns locals, who fear too many sybarites will spoil the coast.
- Call me an idle sybarite, but I value this capability.
- They encouraged him, while in the city, to live like a sybarite.
- He is essentially a sybarite, renting a spacious palazzo by the Grand Canal, eating, drinking and, separated from his wife in England, womanising with zest.
- This is Naldhera perched way above sea level, with majestic views of the Shimla ridge, offering nature for the sybarite, hiking and rafting for the athlete and golf for those who are into handicaps and hole-in-ones.
- When a man lives in a multi-million dollar mansion and makes a hundred million a year, his kids are more than likely to become drug-using sybarites.
Synonyms hedonist, sensualist, voluptuary, libertine, pleasure seeker, playboy, epicure, glutton, gourmand, gastronome
Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting an inhabitant of Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, noted for luxury): via Latin from Greek Subaritēs. |