Both Uses of
hedonist
in
Catch-22
- He couldn't find her again in the Allied officers' night club that evening or in the sweltering, burnished, hedonistic bedlam of the black-market restaurant with its vast bobbing wooden trays of elegant food and its chirping flock of bright and lovely girls.†
Chpt 16
- The old man watched him with victorious merriment, sitting in his musty blue armchair like some satanic and hedonistic deity on a throne, a stolen U.S. Army blanket wrapped around his spindly legs to ward off a chill.†
Chpt 23 *
Definition:
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(hedonist) someone most motivated by pleasures -- often sensual pleasures