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Synonyms for sybaritic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sib-uh-rit-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌsɪb əˈrɪt ɪk |
Définition of sybaritic
Origin :- 1610s, from Latin sybariticus, from Greek sybaritikos, from Sybarites (see Sybarite).
- adj devoted to pleasure
- We were becoming selfish, self-indulgent, sybaritic rapidly.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 » by Various
- I had heard that Sir William Howe was of sybaritic temperament.
- Extract from : « In Hostile Red » by Joseph Altsheler
- Our first night in La Gloria was not one of sybaritic pleasure.
- Extract from : « Pioneering in Cuba » by James Meade Adams
- His wide, thin lips were pursed in sybaritic enjoyment of his cigar.
- Extract from : « The Girl in the Mirror » by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
- That is as near to sybaritic luxury as a man should care to come.
- Extract from : « Little Rivers » by Henry van Dyke
- He liked inaction, no matter how sybaritic as much as I. Then, "Okay," and he reached for the telephone.
- Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred
- The traveller reposes with a feeling of Sybaritic delight under its thick and evergreen foliage, enriched with brilliant flowers.
- Extract from : « The Desert World » by Arthur Mangin
- Though born to the forest, and a good woodsman, he had sybaritic tastes, which needed only opportunity to bud and bloom.
- Extract from : « The Free Rangers » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- There are crofts, with thick, tall hedges, and cattle lying in them with a sybaritic luxury of indolence.
- Extract from : « Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets, Vol. II (of 2) » by William Howitt
- It was at this point that he definitely condemned Simeon Stylites as a sybaritic fraud.
- Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse
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