Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic
- n. a proponent of consumerism
Etymologies
- consumer + -ist (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Whether "increased productivity" will fill those gaps though, is based on assumptions made by economists in consumerist, not producer, cultures.”
“Rather, we are all participants in a contemporary phenomenon that has been variously called a consumerist culture and a consumer society.”
“Foodie' now means little more than 'I like to take pictures of my meals, I have enormous luxuries of time and money and choose to spend them on food'; it's nothing more than bourgeois banality with a culinary - which is to say very literally 'consumerist' - bent, and if there is an activity in this world less interesting than scrupulously documenting one's 28\%-tax-bracket indulgences (with proper lighting, and you'd need a decent camera, and oh honey could you move the handcrafted earthenware centerpiece, it's putting a shadow on my vichyssoise), it remains unknown to me.”
“The relentless parade of bling and booty in hip hop videos (with honourable exceptions) has been particularly dispiriting, amounting to a kind of consumerist, sexist soft porn.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“But I have issues with people like the family from California who to me represent the kind of consumerist behavior that TV shows like 'The Simpsons' so hilariously barb.”
“Whether planting trees, educating people, starting recycling programs, or finding other ways to help will definitely offset our consumerist nature.”
The Huffington Post: Avital Binshtock: Ovie Mughelli: The NFL's Green MVP
“Q: Do you think there's a consumerist culture among pro athletes?”
The Huffington Post: Avital Binshtock: Ovie Mughelli: The NFL's Green MVP
“And no matter how much I want to talk about the commodification of sex in our mass-consumerist society, I simply don't have the space.”
The Huffington Post: Roxana Shirazi: The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage : Preface
“First, there is the consumerist agenda, which seeks to sell anything from cars to spirituality itself by appealing to the mystical.”
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