(n.) A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
Example Sentences:
(1) More sybaritically, there is a wine cellar, and a tunnel to the Mandarin Oriental through which meals can be served.
(2) When war broke out, they were in the south of France, and it was in Antibes, where they wintered, that she met her mentor, the writer and traveller Norman Douglas (the sybaritic Douglas would be the single biggest human influence on David when it came to food).
(3) The court ruled in February that Turkey violated freedom of expression laws and prevented access to Europe's literary heritage when it banned the novel, which details the erotic adventures of the debauched Romanian aristocrat Mony Vibescu and his fellow sybarites, and was banned in France itself until 1970.
(4) My sybaritic friends complained that I'd been "sanitised" ("decaf, e-fag …" they moaned).
(5) The book details the erotic adventures of the debauched Romanian aristocrat Mony Vibescu and his fellow sybarites, containing graphic scenes of intercourse, sadomasochism, paedophilia, necrophilia, coprophilia and vampirism.
(6) Puritan art and sybaritic behaviour seemed to go merrily together.
(7) Bon viveur to the end, Ned was much more than a cheerful sybarite.
Voluptuary
Definition:
(n.) A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
(a.) Voluptuous; luxurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even voluptuary habits, such as smoking and alcohol intake, could be detrimental in this respect.
(2) Two cases of acute voluptuary poisoning by infusions of dry leaves of stramonium are reported.
(3) Though he may run a tight ship in his businesses, in private Sir Philip is a hedonistic voluptuary , whose permatanned corpulence bears witness to his lifestyle as accurately as Cripps's own skeletal physique did in the 1940s.
(4) The task is complicated by Donne's penchant for flouting literary and social convention as he successively overturns Ovid's influential portrayal of Sappho as an aging voluptuary reclaimed for heterosexuality, the virulent homophobia of Renaissance humanists, and the coy idealizations and transient evocation given to lesbian affectivity by the very few Renaissance writers (including Shakespeare) who touched on the subject at all.