as in sensualist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures he's a star chef and self-described hedonist

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Recent Examples of hedonist After a buzzy renovation and reopening in 2023, it’s welcomed a new generation of Tinseltown hedonists. Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025 Danny is the sort of hard-partying, hard-drinking hedonist who wakes up with multiple undressed women in his bed, while Wihlborg refers to his body as a temple and disdains liquor and carbs. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 Marianne had an instant impact on Mick, as a posh hedonist who was tough to impress — sophisticated, arty, well-read, not the least bit awed by him. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 This is the burger for hedonists (particularly those who have time to take a nap right after). Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hedonist
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Noun
  • Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Receiving a cut of every Cadillac sold in California, Tommy lived a playboy life, speeding cars, dating starlets, and competing in drag races along the dry desert lake beds of the Mojave Desert, hurtling across the sand in goggles at over 100 miles per hour.
    Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as a cocky playboy ping-pong player, and that’s not even the most interesting part.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing important happens in this movie, which the Italian voluptuary Luca Guadagnino directed and yet, being as manically alive as Mr. Fiennes is here has to count for something.
    WESLEY MORRIS, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
Noun
  • Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.
    Lindsay Cohn, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
  • What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 May 2025

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“Hedonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hedonist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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