hedonist
noun
a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
hedonistically
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a word derived from
hedonist.
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a word derived from
hedonistic.
Example Sentences
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Now, Washington wine lovers can enjoy hedonistically ripe efforts from a sultry vintage such as 2015 while patiently waiting to see how the 2020 and 2021 reds will score with critics and consumers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
In the Journal of Popular Culture, film scholar Lesley Speed wrote about how 1980s teen comedies often depict “young, middle-class men’s presumed right to behave hedonistically on other people’s territory.”
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2018
“Gluttony,” for instance, on its right-hand side shows mother, father and daughter assembled at an elegantly set table, while on its left, the same trio is hedonistically gorging themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2013
If the human soul is immortal, the world is economically or hedonistically good; if not, it is bad.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
