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How to pronounce voluptuary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sybarite
Type of sensualist
Type Words
Synonyms epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous

Examples of voluptuary

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Matisse the color-infatuated voluptuary, Picasso the spiky engineer of Cubist space.
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Her Agnes was a voluptuary of angelic possession, and Plummer easily stole the show.
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The lover is Celzani, a repressed voluptuary in pursuit of Miss Pedani.
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On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary.
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Barney reminds you sometimes of a sinister voluptuary.
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We like bison because it's much leaner than beef but still satisfies that voluptuary jones for red meat.
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Talleyrand had a reputation as a voluptuary and a womaniser.
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He's essentially a voluptuary whose temperament runs to big emotions and the purplish prose that heightens them.
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Messiaen's voice is voluptuary, ecstatic, full of shimmery colors and an emotional radiance that can sometimes border on the cheesy.
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More examples
  • A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  • Epicurean: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
  • One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker; A woman with a rounded, sensual figure