Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to excessive eating; greedy; voracious; hence, grasping.
- Characterized by or consisting in excessive eating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Given to
excessive eating ; prone toovereating . - adjective
Greedy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
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Examples
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_On the contrary, _ Gregory says (Moral. xxx, 18) that "unless we first tame the enemy dwelling within us, namely our gluttonous appetite, we have not even stood up to engage in the spiritual combat."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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If Jesus had not come eating and drinking, He could not have been called gluttonous and a wine-bibber.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Charity, unknown on earth before the coming of the Son of man, who was content to be called gluttonous and
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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Charity, unknown on earth before the coming of the Son of man, who was content to be called gluttonous and
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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Charity, unknown on earth before the coming of the Son of man, who was content to be called gluttonous and
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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Yet one of these ye said had a daemon, the other ye called a gluttonous man, and drunkard.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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It's doubtful that the Boomers will again know the kind of gluttonous good times in which they were privileged to grow up, and to live much of their adult lives.
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For all its minimal austerity, the piece is almost kind of gluttonous: The untreated wood and rock against the shiny gray-granite flooring, sweeping glass, and brazen geometric light slanting through the window made my palms sweaty.
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For all its minimal austerity, the piece is almost kind of gluttonous: The untreated wood and rock against the shiny gray-granite flooring, sweeping glass, and brazen geometric light slanting through the window made my palms sweaty.
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With the rate of obesity on the rise, especially throughout the Bible Belt south, are these "gluttonous" children at a particularly high risk of stoning?
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