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/sˌɪbɑːɹˈɪtɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use sybaritic In A Sentence
- Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
- Side-by-side (it takes barely half an hour to get from one to the other) are the sybaritic pleasures of the beach and the heady exertions of the sort of outdoor life enjoyed by the Von Trapp family.
- The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
- Of course the prince was right, but the sybaritic lifestyle of the old tsarist aristocracy invited nemesis. Times, Sunday Times
- But they wrought their awful romances of crime in lands where the sun of supreme civilization, through a gorgeous evening of Sybaritic luxury, was sinking, with red tints of revolution, into the night of anarchy and national caducity. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
- After this sybaritic interlude, it's back to the wild west again to a tiny village called Ahipara, which trades in adventure.
- Now the last week in August, with the sybaritic pleasures of the State Fair behind me and the September reading group deadline in front of me, I can no longer avoid the monster.
- These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
- We were quite sybaritical as to hours, with breakfast and dinner courses, and mouth-organs and cigarettes and jam between meals. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
- I have to be careful I don't preach to my sybaritic, porky friends with messianic fervour about the joys of healthy eating.