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Sardanapalian

[ sahr-dn-uh-peyl-yuhn, -pey-lee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. excessively luxurious or sensual.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sardanapalian1

1865–70; Sardanapal ( us ) a legendary Assyrian king proverbial for his decadence (< Latin < Greek Sardanápal ( l ) os, perhaps ultimately < Akkadian Aššur-ban-apli Ashurbanipal) + -ian
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Example Sentences

The cacique was taken prisoner and with him his entire Sardanapalian court.

The first movement has the martial pomp and hauteur and the Sardanapalian opulence and color that mark 294 a barbaric triumph.

They copy the luxuries, the inborn vices of the blue blood of Europe's crowned Sardanapalian autocrats.

And it was for this, then, that all these Sardanapalian accusations had been piled upon my head.

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