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  • Roarke wasn't in a partygoing mood, but as Feeney had gone to some trouble to create a monstrously hedonistic atmosphere, he played his part.  (source)
    hedonistic = devoted to self-indulgent pleasures
  • They believed that hedonism was the only way to get rid of their sins.  (source)
    hedonism = the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good
  • It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined.  (source)
    hedonistic = placing pleasure as the highest good
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  • I still don't know who cooked that hedonistic meal.  (source)
    hedonistic = indulgent; or motivated by pleasure
  • Be afraid of nothing… A new Hedonism—that is what our century wants.  (source)
    Hedonism = the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest good
  • He's a hedonist at heart.  (source)
    hedonist = someone most motivated by pleasures
  • Some even dared claim that Heaven was comprised of an immortal aristocracy of wilful hedonists who played games with the world.†  (source)
  • being prosperous, hedonistic, and at the time not too busy, had been allowing himself the luxury of sleeping until nine or nine-thirty, but fortunately he had to get up early the morning the bomb was dropped to see a house guest off on a train.  (source)
    hedonistic = someone most motivated by sensual pleasures
  • Most of the students had already departed, eager to begin the routine hedonism of another bare-limbed summer.†  (source)
    hedonism = the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest good
  • Hedonist.†  (source)
  • Max loved playing the hedonistic businessman, but the truth was that he did not know to whom he could hand over responsibility for the family firm.†  (source)
    hedonistic = motivated by pleasure
  • In the household of her early youth, in Cracow, Sophie had grown up with wine, her father having possessed a strain of hedonism which caused him to insist (in a country as barren of vineyards as Montana) that her mother's ample and often elegant Viennese meals be accompanied with some regularity by the fine wines of Austria and the Hungarian plains.†  (source)
    hedonism = the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest good
  • A hedonist for the times.†  (source)
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