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a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures
a fin de siècle novel about dandies and voluptuaries
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Recent Examples of voluptuary
Wesley Morris, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for voluptuary
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
Adjective
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From cheeky shots of celebrities like Jane Fonda and Arnold Schwarzenegger to extravagant, sensual portfolios of America’s Olympic squads, the magazine’s pantheon of photographers have helped to define the genre of sports portraiture.—
Jonathan Pace,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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
Adjective
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The flakes were slow and voluptuous, and already the wraithlike branches outside the window were fattening with white.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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Bombshell reporting by none other than the Daily Mail revealed that Bryon Noem harbors a voracious appetite for the voluptuous things in life.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Robb Report,
20 May 2025
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What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.—
Lynn Yaeger,
Vogue,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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The film pulls the audience onto the dance floor of the hedonistic nightclub Downtown in Amsterdam, where Ronnie and Lennart spend most of their nights.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Amidst the hedonistic glamour of 1980s excess, the personal lives of our Rutshire heroes spiral into chaos.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The previous movie focused on a rich playboy who steals art.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
15 Apr. 2026
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In one of the musical’s many stomach-turning late developments, its resident rake, a bisexual playboy played by Claybourne Elder (doing better after his carriage accident), sets his sights on a 14-year-old girl who has slipped into the party from Poughkeepsie (Maya Rowe) and tries to rape her.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The gourmet scene is yet another aspect that makes Vienna a must-visit for sybaritic travelers.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Voluptuary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voluptuary. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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