Epicurean - English meaning

adjective

Having been deserted or left.

Usage examples:

An abandoned car

verb

Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

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Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age

idiom

A sociable person who enjoys fine food and luxury

noun

A person who devotes themselves to a sociable and luxurious lifestyle.

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He was a diplomat, bon vivant, and womanizer par excellence

noun

A person who enjoys good food and wines and likes going to restaurants and parties

noun

An expert judge in matters of taste.

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A connoisseur of music

noun

A person who has expert knowledge of something, esp. an art, food, or drink, and is qualified to judge and appreciate its quality

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The mushrooms had the chewy, savory flavor preferred by connoisseurs.

noun

Someone who has a lot of experience of something and knows a lot about it

Usage examples:

A connoisseur of fine wine, this product will be marketed at connoisseurs.

adjective

Characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline.

Usage examples:

A decaying, decadent britain

noun

A person who is luxuriously self-indulgent.

Usage examples:

For half a million dollars, he offers rich decadents the chance to lead a deadly safari

adjective

A decadent person or group has low moral standards

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A decadent society, the decadent court surrounding the king, humorous champagne and chocolates for …

adjective

Morally corrupt; wicked.

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He was a depraved lecher

verb

Make (someone) immoral or wicked.

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This book would deprave and corrupt young children

adjective

Morally bad or evil

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A depraved character/mind, someone who can kill a child like that must be totally depraved.

adjective

(of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures.

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Unfortunately, his heir was feckless and dissolute

adjective

Showing a lack of good character and morals; immoral

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A dissolute life

noun

A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.

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They see themselves as epicures—delighting in food that is properly prepared

noun

A gourmet.

Usage examples:

Gastronomes will be fascinated by this guide to french cooking

noun

Someone who enjoys and knows about high-quality food and drink

noun

An excessively greedy eater.

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Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offend…

noun

A person who regularly eats too much

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What a glutton – he ate a whole pizza by himself.

noun

A person who enjoys eating and often eats too much.

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I realise i'm doing what gourmands never do - reveal their favourite restaurants for fear of overpo…

noun

A person who enjoys eating large amounts of food

noun

A connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate.

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Now gourmets can treat their palates to real turkish food.

noun

A person who knows a lot about food and cooking, and who enjoys eating good food

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She is a gourmet cook.

noun

A person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker.

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She was living the life of a committed hedonist

noun

Someone who tries to have as much pleasure as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life is to enjoy yourself

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The marquis de sade was a hedonist who believed there should be no limits on human behaviour., wils…

adjective

Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure; sensually self-indulgent.

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A hedonistic existence of booze, drugs, and parties

adjective

Living and behaving in ways that mean you have as much pleasure as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life is to enjoy yourself

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Had raphael been alive today, his hedonistic lifestyle would have generated as many headlines as hi…

adjective

Having or indicating a readiness or over-readiness to be generous to or lenient with someone.

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Indulgent parents

adjective

Allowing someone to have or do what they want, especially when this is not good for them

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Indulgent relatives, an indulgent smile, he had been a strict father but was indulgent to/towards h…

noun

A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.

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His image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth

adjective

Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.

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His more libertine impulses

noun

A person, usually a man, who has few moral principles and has sexual relationships with many people

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She considers him an arrogant, dandified libertine., the infamous libertine casanova was more compl…

adjective

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

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The ruler's tyrannical and licentious behaviour

adjective

(especially of a person or their behaviour) sexual in an uncontrolled and socially unacceptable way

adjective

Disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way.

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The louche world of the theatre

adjective

Not completely moral or honest, often in an attractive way

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A louche young man approached her on the dance floor.

noun

The practice of always trying to do things that make you happy, rather than working or doing other useful activities

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Much of his time was spent in self-indulgent pleasure-seeking., he lived through the manic pleasure…

adjective

Allowing yourself to have or do anything you want

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A lot of the poetry is just self-indulgent nonsense., my parents’ trip to hawaii was an unusual sel…

noun

A person devoted to physical, especially sexual, pleasure.

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A dedicated sensualist

adjective

(of a person or their conduct) characterized by or showing a lack of shame; barefaced or brazen.

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His shameless hypocrisy

adjective

Wicked and immoral; committing or characterized by the committing of sins.

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Sinful men

noun

A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury.

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I've encountered people who lived as self-involved sybarites for years but assumed a new christian …

noun

A person who loves expensive things and pleasure

adjective

Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent.

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Their opulent and sybaritic lifestyle

noun

A person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.

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The novel's italians are listless voluptuaries, its germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are…

adjective

Concerned with or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasure.

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A voluptuary decade when high living was in style

adjective

(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

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Sheer wanton vandalism

noun

A sexually unrestrained woman.

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She'd behaved like a wanton

verb

Play; frolic.

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They sat gazing at the white-flecked pure blue sea and the various gulls that wantoned in the wake