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adj. - Devoted to pleasure.

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  • See Laurie, I told you this olive oil bath with bread, would tempt me in hedonistic ways: D
  • I also don't like how Lester and Carolyn are both indulging in hedonistic behavior but somehow only Carolyn's the materialistic weasel.
  • The entire premise of the first Friday the 13th film is the notion of hedonistic teens paying for their self-indulgent ways.
  • There is another Aesthetic, which has been called hedonistic, utilitarian, moralistic, and so on, according to its various manifestations.
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