voluptuary in English
adjective
1
concerned with luxury and sensual pleasure.
a voluptuary decade when high living was in style
noun
1
a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.
The novel's Italians are listless voluptuaries , its Germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are whores or maniacs and its censors are libidinously thrilled by the material they censor.
Use "voluptuary" in a sentence
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1. It was as if Gillray's avaricious monarch was more of an affront than the voluptuary suffering from the horrors of dissipation.
2. 28 It was as if Gillray's avaricious monarch was more of an affront than the voluptuary suffering from the horrors of dissipation.
3. The injury to the child would be far less if the voluptuary said frankly "I beat you because I like beating you; and I shall do it whenever I can contrive an excuse for it."