sybaritic

[ UK /sˌɪbɑːɹˈɪtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
    a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
    enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs
    an epicurean banquet
    Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
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How To Use sybaritic In A Sentence

  • Throughout that Cape summer, as the prevailing south-easterlies blew long and warm from the Indian Ocean, they enjoyed a sybaritic life.
  • Consider, too, that she was in possession of a jewellery collection that included Faberge's finest and one of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklaces, and it is easy to see why courtiers gave up trying to disguise her sybaritic nature.
  • The best suites have seafront terraces complete with king-size day beds and private rooftop terraces from which to enjoy the sunsets in sybaritic style.
  • There are new luxury lodges and sybaritic spas to restore the body.
  • These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
  • Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
  • Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
  • By all accounts both Tub O'Lard and Miss Caravanning Monthly 1975 are still enjoying the sybaritic delights of the 'Grace & Favour' residences that were granted to them when they were still Ministers of The Crown, the former enjoying a flat in Admiralty Arch where, as Deputy Prime Minister he is said to have smoothed the ruffled feathers of Vanity Blair and Macavity (and doubtless shagged his secretary whilst the going was good) and the latter at Carlton Gardens. Archive 2007-07-22
  • All my nostalgia for Venice has been evoked by an article in this week's Spectator, in which Stephen Glover describes the sybaritic pleasures of his weekend.
  • They have no sympathies with the saints and heroes who have been great through self-abnegation, for such lives are a constant reproach to their own sybaritical tendencies. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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