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US
/ˈɡɫətənəs/
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[ UK /ɡlˈʌtənəs/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈʌtənəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure
over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands
a gluttonous debauch
How To Use gluttonous In A Sentence
- Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
- And hey, you can finally tell yourself that being a slothful, gluttonous thief isn't such a self-serving activity, after all.
- Her words came after much thought and in-between the orificial cramming of her oh-so-temporary partner for the night. “It has come to my attention that you, Seamus, are gluttonous because you think you do not have anything else to live for but your own pleasure. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
- ‘Yum, yum, snarf, devour, gulp, chew, cram, etc,’ I started stuffing my face gluttonously as soon as supper was served.
- He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death.
- We gluttonously overordered the grilled and marinated meats, even retracing our steps for seconds.
- We gluttonously overordered the grilled and marinated meats, even retracing our steps for seconds.
- I sometimes think she is a sort of living phenomenon intended to represent all the passions -- a genuine Pandora's box -- a piece of patchwork made up of the odds and ends of all animals in creation -- a sort of menagerie in herself, where the dove and the kite, the serpent and the sparrow, the gilded butterfly and the unsightly bat, the gluttonous sloth and the air-feeding chamelion, are all exhibited. Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
- At school, the boys' lives had been made a misery by a ridiculous and pompous teacher, Félix-Fréderic Hébert, and they had retaliated by composing mock-epics depicting him as a gluttonous blunderer. That Ubu That He Did So Well