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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sybaritic.

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  • adjective sybaritic

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Examples

  • I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendae pecuniae, genitos, as he [1885] taxed Anthony, Qui patrimonium sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith [1886] Cyprian, and [1887] mad sybaritical spendthrifts,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • These three assistants were equal to a business which would harry ten such clerks as those whose sybaritical tastes now swell the columns of the budget.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • These three assistants were equal to a business which would harry ten such clerks as those whose sybaritical tastes now swell the columns of the budget.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • They have no sympathies with the saints and heroes who have been great through self-abnegation, for such lives are a constant reproach to their own sybaritical tendencies.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • 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 Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

  • These three assistants were equal to a business which would harry ten such clerks as those whose sybaritical tastes now swell the columns of the budget.

    At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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