amateur, bent on pleasure, connaisseur, dissipated, gluttonous, hedonistic, lush, piggish, refined palate, swinish, virtuoso
Definitionadj. of Epicurus or epicureanism
Last update: July 26, 2015
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Gibbon was such a man as Horace might have been, had the Roman Epicurean been fonder of hard intellectual work, and less prone than he was to the indulgence of emotion. [Please select]
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You are a Stoic; I prefer the Epicurean philosophy. [Please select]
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_September_ says-- The burthened earth abounds with various fruit, Which doth the Epicurean's Palate Suit. [Please select]
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The Stoic and Epicurean dogmas had lost their freshness. [Please select]
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Having been a Stoic, she now became an Epicurean. [Please select]
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Hunger, however, may blunt the most epicurean taste, and Tarzan was not exactly an epicure. [Please select]
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"May I die," says the Epicurean, "rather than make a fool of myself." [Please select]
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Under such circumstances all the epicurean in a man's nature is apt to awaken within him. [Please select]
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CHAPTER XV THE CHUMS IN PERIL Even the epicurean Tubby Hopkins voted dinner that day a great success, and Hiram, with becoming modesty, took his congratulations blushingly. [Please select]
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A frolicsome youth may leave something to regret in the way of time misspent; but Goethe the man was no dawdler, no easy-going Epicurean. [Please select]
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