NOUN
- a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
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 voluptuary In A Sentence
- It may seem unfair to over-emphasize the voluptuary in Mr. Pepys, but it is Mr. Pepys, the promiscuous amourist; stringing his lute (God forgive him!) on a Sunday, that is the outstanding figure in the Diary. The Art of Letters
- Now am I relapsed into all the dissatisfied repinement of a true English grumbling voluptuary. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
- *The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
- The dancer makes her a voluptuary from the start, selling her soul for pleasure.
- We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary.
- Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
- Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
- I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of The Kreutzer Sonata
- The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
- In place of some Hollywood voluptuary, she gives us a Cleopatra who is a working queen and ruler: at one point we even see her in specs sitting at a desk signing state papers. Antony and Cleopatra - review
