Sample Sentences formaterialistic (editor-reviewed)
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She thinks Americans are too materialistic.materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
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I wouldn't describe myself as materialistic, but I would like some financial security.
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Often someone described as materialistic is thought to be deficient in one or more other areas such as human interest, the spiritual, the aesthetic, or the intellectual.
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A non-materialist. (source)materialist = someone highly concerned with wealth and possessions
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We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us.† (source)
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I found it materialistic, indulgent, and, with all of the chocolate, completely unhealthy.† (source)
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Your materialism will make you suffer terribly not only at the end but also on the way.† (source)
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I saw my life as if I stood apart from it, the vanity, the self-serving, the constant fleeing from one petty annoyance after another, the lip service to God and the Virgin and a host of saints whose names filled my prayer books, none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existence.† (source)
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Since he believed in nothing but material things, we call him a materialist.† (source)
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They are godless through and through, gross egotists, despicable materialists.† (source)
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My parents were nonmaterialistic.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonmaterialistic means not and reverses the meaning of materialistic. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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These are just a few samples: Modern man thinks too materialistically; he does not see that there is a power of good and a power of evil quite apart from him, and that the course of life depends on the power to which he opens his heart ... We run into the occult again and again, especially in colleges and high schools.† (source)
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And how, Cedric, did that materialism manifest itself?† (source)
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Babel is a gateway in our minds, a gateway that was opened by the nam-shub of Enki that broke us free from the metavirus and gave us the ability to think-moved us from a materialistic world to a dualistic world— a binary world-with both a physical and a spiritual component.† (source)
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He's a materialist, no question, and his room is a warehouse.† (source)
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We are all realists here, and materialists.† (source)
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