Citations:sybaritic
English citations of sybaritic
Adjective edit
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- Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
- Synonyms: epicurean, lotus-eating, (archaic) sybaritical
- 1619, Henry Hutton, Follie’s Anatomie. Or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams with a Compendious History of Ixion’s Wheele. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Mathew Walbanke, […], →OCLC, signature B4, verso:
- His belly is a Ceſterne of receit, / A grand Confounder of demulcing Meate. / A Sabariticke Sea, a depthleſſe Gulfe, / A ſenceleſſe Vulture, a corroding VVolfe.
- 1961 June 1, Robert Heinlein, chapter XXXVI, in Stranger in a Strange Land (A Berkley Medallion Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Corporation, published March 1968 (November 1972 printing), →ISBN, part 5 (His Happy Destiny), page 392:
- Mike took a slow sybaritic sip. "We do use liquor. A few of us—Saul, myself, Sven, some others—like it. I've learned to let it have just a little effect, then hold it, and gain a euphoric growing-closer much like trance without having to withdraw."
- 1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, chapter 2, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Allison & Busby, published 2009, →ISBN, page 168:
- He seeks to work in the arena? […] His is a manly trade; sybaritic Rome, that is becoming effeminate, needs to see muscle at work, recalling more primitive glories.
- 2011, Chrystia Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite”, in The Atlantic:
- Yet for all its luxury, the mood of the Zeitgeist conference is hardly sybaritic.