gluttonous
Americanadjective
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tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
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greedy; insatiable.
Other Word Forms
- gluttonously adverb
- gluttonousness noun
- ungluttonous adjective
Etymology
Origin of gluttonous
Example Sentences
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His car was still running, and when the oil alarm light became hysterical again it was almost joyfully that Herbie tended to the motor’s gluttonous needs.
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He is all these things; but he is also like an apple, after a prolonged and gluttonous binge.
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But apparently the procedure was struggling against a gluttonous appetite, because she was bulging in all the wrong places.
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We ate so much sweet bread and consumed so much tart lemonade, we felt gluttonous, but sinfully content.
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After he swallowed the egg yolks whole, Bull spread a gluttonous helping of Crosse and Blackwell orange marmalade on two pieces of toast and consumed them with as much noise as relish.
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