as in hedonist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures the prince was remembered as a self-indulgent sybarite, not as a statesman or warrior

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Recent Examples of sybarite 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 Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy. Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 It was said to be situated at one of the portals to Shambhala — a mythical kingdom of peace and tranquillity in the Buddhist imagining — and had been founded in the century before by an artist, saint and sybarite called Danzanravjaa, known as the lama of the Gobi. Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023 Nadia was a sybarite who seemed poised to tip over into genuine addiction. Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022 Mickey is a simpler case, and Sebastian Stan gets to swap his heavy duties as the Winter Soldier, in the Marvel franchise, for those of a summer sybarite. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2021 What to eat and drink The Romantic Road is a sybarite’s dream come true, cutting through Franconia’s wine country and Bavaria’s beer territory with southern Germany's hearty cuisine served along the way. National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2019
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Noun
  • If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This version of Trump is a lawsuit-happy hedonist who is literally in bed with Satan (in South Park, Satan is something of a lost soul, often ending up in abusive relationships).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Sybarite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sybarite. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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