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or less commonly esthete
: one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art
Examples of aesthete in a Sentence
He regards art critics as a bunch of pretentious aesthetes.
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The group devolves into snide hypocrisy, just another hollow group of fake rich kids instead of motivated aesthetes, and Gloria turns into a dime-a-dozen troubled actress.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Today’s clients aren’t just heiresses and socialites—such as the archetypal ladies who lunched Nan Kempner and Lynn Wyatt—they’re young tech founders, wealthy aesthetes, and archivists.
—Chloe Russell Kent, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
The villa was designed by Tunisian architect Charles Boccara, who grew up in Morocco, and was finished by Bill Willis, an American aesthete who emigrated to Morocco.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
For aesthetes with basically sound if simplistic politics.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Today’s clients aren’t just heiresses and socialites—such as the archetypal ladies who lunched Nan Kempner and Lynn Wyatt—they’re young tech founders, wealthy aesthetes, and archivists.
—Chloe Russell Kent, Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
The villa was designed by Tunisian architect Charles Boccara, who grew up in Morocco, and was finished by Bill Willis, an American aesthete who emigrated to Morocco.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
For aesthetes with basically sound if simplistic politics.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for aesthete
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“Aesthete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthete. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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