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- noun Plural form of
hedonist .
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Examples
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This group of soulless hedonists are all connected sexually one way or another and we can see the plague that will wipe them out coming way before they do.
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His personal appetites were legion too, akin to those of Nero or other famous hedonists of yore.
The World's Most Repressive State Melanie Kirkpatrick 2011
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Hollywood allowed my father to reinvent himself as a character named Famous Amos in an attempt to escape his history and family -- a bearded, amped-up Willy Wonka in blackface pushing cookies to a town full of '70s hedonists.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood Shawn Amos 2011
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To some people, who are greater and more noble than hedonists, it isn't about "gain," either in the short-run or the long-run.
Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Berlin's media savvy mayor Klaus Wowereit knows this all too well, which is why he has OK'd developments all over town and coined the famous phrase "Berlin is poor but sexy" which has drawn hedonists from around the globe – including 330,000 Britons in 2010, the biggest foreign contingent after the Italians.
Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd 2011
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Hollywood allowed my father to reinvent himself as a character named Famous Amos in an attempt to escape his history and family -- a bearded, amped-up Willy Wonka in blackface pushing cookies to a town full of '70s hedonists.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood Shawn Amos 2011
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Hollywood allowed my father to reinvent himself as a character named Famous Amos in an attempt to escape his history and family -- a bearded, amped-up Willy Wonka in blackface pushing cookies to a town full of '70s hedonists.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood Shawn Amos 2011
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When I ask them to define success, there are shades of an article I've brought with me, in which a Polish social psychologist rather sniffily sums up young Poles as "predominantly materialistic hedonists".
For a generation of young Poles, travelling abroad is still often the only option 2011
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Hollywood allowed my father to reinvent himself as a character named Famous Amos in an attempt to escape his history and family -- a bearded, amped-up Willy Wonka in blackface pushing cookies to a town full of '70s hedonists.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood Shawn Amos 2011
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They were not only great surfers, but brilliant athletes, adventurers, and hedonists.
Tamsin Smith: Catching a Wave Tamsin Smith 2011
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