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.
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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
For Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell, cofounders of Sybarite, the London architectural firm and longtime collaborator of SKP, the SKP Wuhan will play a huge part in evolving the city’s luxury retail landscape.
—Denni Hu, WWD, 30 July 2024
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
For decades, Cabo San Lucas has been the magnet of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, luring sybarites and adventurers to the peninsula's southernmost tip with its high-end resorts and world-class sportfishing and surf breaks.
—Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2021
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
For Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell, cofounders of Sybarite, the London architectural firm and longtime collaborator of SKP, the SKP Wuhan will play a huge part in evolving the city’s luxury retail landscape.
—Denni Hu, WWD, 30 July 2024
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
For decades, Cabo San Lucas has been the magnet of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, luring sybarites and adventurers to the peninsula's southernmost tip with its high-end resorts and world-class sportfishing and surf breaks.
—Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sybarite
Noun
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And what fame gave me, what addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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And what fame gave me and what my addiction fueled was opportunity for endless consent, which led me to be a hedonist and a fool and an exploiter of women.—
Lindsay Kimble,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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The film would eventually gross more than $16 million worldwide while securing Wong’s reputation as one of cinema’s great sensualists.—
Gregg Kilday,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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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
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One recent afternoon, the Irish actor Aidan Turner, who plays the seedy playboy the Vicomte de Valmont in a new production of the show at the National Theatre, settled into an armchair in the hotel’s lounge.—
Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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No wonder most of America’s 250 automakers wanted nothing to do with the race, which was bankrolled by a playboy heir to the Guggenheim fortune and intended to boost the World’s Fair, promote the automobile, and illuminate the need for better roads.—
Eric Moskowitz,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
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“Sybarite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sybarite. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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