sybaritic

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They have a private car as large as Shepler's and even more sybaritic, and they'd been making a tour of inspection over their properties.

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  1. adjective Devoted to or marked by pleasure and luxury.
  2. adjective Of or relating to Sybaris or its people.

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  • Let us thank goodness for the sybaritic tendencies of the Senior Common Room. —  Death of a Burrowing Mole - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 62
  • Under that program, suspected terrorists were (are?) whisked away to exotic locales, not for a sybaritic, martini-soaked holiday, mind you, but to be tortured for information. —  Across the Aisle
  • And if you're into sybaritic pleasure, you can order backseats that ventilate and massage your back and seat. —  The Car Connection
  • This specific ballast waste pattern has traditionally been prescribed to patients w phentermine diet ballast in the vanguard you can say 'Jack Robinson' - combined with food and drill, Phentermine can alleviate the life-and-death haleness conditions affiliated to plumpness, such as sybaritic blood force and cholesterol. measure, it is superficially prescribed for concise periods of three to six weeks because of its tendency-forming nature. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • & Track have thrilled to sybaritic European press trips promoting these astonishing vehicles. —  The Car Connection
 

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  1. = French Sybaritique, from Latin Sybariticus, from Greek Συβαριτικός, pertaining to Sybaris, from Συβαρίτης, an inhabitant of Sybaris: see Sybarite.
 

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/sɪbəˈrɪtɪk/
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