Definitions
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- adjective Exhibiting or supporting
consumerism ;materialistic ; eager to amass material goods.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Are you upset that stores indulging in consumeristic excess don't explicitly mention your religious holiday as they do it?
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Are you upset that stores indulging in consumeristic excess don't explicitly mention your religious holiday as they do it?
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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I thought about the massive department store that sat underneath like it like some kind of consumeristic rhinoceros, with only its horns poking up through the turf.
gan_bei: I'm trying to concentrate on writing, bu gan_bei 2007
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I have no desire to live where the consumeristic Borders is my only option for storytimes and books.
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You mean with the approach of the season when everyone wants to blow a huge chunk of their cash on useless junk in an irresponsibly frenzied consumeristic orgasm ... and they're finding themselves without credit or as much spare cash as usual ... they're feeling a little extra down about the economy?
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Take a short break out of your consumeristic frenzy today to read Tim Craig and Nikita Stewart's update on Mayor-Elect Vince Gray's slow-moving transition: Less than six weeks before Gray assumes control of the District, he has yet to name a single agency head or indicate which members of the Fenty administration he plans to retain.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 26, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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Or will such poems, songs, and texts just be replaced by consumeristic slogans? —
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Or will such poems, songs, and texts just be replaced by consumeristic slogans? —
Of Sacred Poets and Sacredness « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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Framing his critique in Marxist terms, he argues that Buddhism is the perfect spiritual tradition to be co-opted by our self-absorbed, destructive, and consumeristic society.
Ethan Nichtern: Radical Buddhism and the Paradox of Acceptance 2010
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Framing his critique in Marxist terms, he argues that Buddhism is the perfect spiritual tradition to be co-opted by our self-absorbed, destructive, and consumeristic society.
Ethan Nichtern: Radical Buddhism and the Paradox of Acceptance 2010
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