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  • The gluttonous seagulls had brazenly eaten chunks torn from his chest and were now on to something else—a herring or a clam.  (source)
    gluttonous = regularly eating to excess
  • When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it.  (source)
    glutton = a person who regularly eats to excess
  • "Gluttons for punishment, are they?" the judge chuckled before continuing.  (source)
    Gluttons = people who persist in some activity despite harmful or unpleasant consequences
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  • What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence?  (source)
    gluttony = eating or drinking to excess
  • And that one, the fat one, the glutton, the bomber, the mutilator of innocent children.†  (source)
    glutton = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much; or someone who persists in an activity even though it has negative consequences; or someone who loves a thing mentioned
  • Behind her they heard the gloop gloop of the bubbling, glutinous potion.†  (source)
    glutinous = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much
  • The hollow let out an ear-splitting screech and began to lift sheep to its slavering jaws one after another, taking a blood-spurting bite from each and then tossing it aside like a gluttonous king gorging at a medieval feast.†  (source)
    gluttonous = describing someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much
  • Then some is gluttons.  (source)
    gluttons = people who regularly eat or drink to excess
  • He hadn't even asked them not to rob him—which they had already done, gluttonously, and without a shred of remorse.†  (source)
    gluttonously = in the manner of someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much
  • "Unselfishness," made of sugar and molasses, and gummed glutinously with tear-shaped syrup.†  (source)
  • wist a man how many maladies Follow of excess and of gluttonies, He woulde be the more measurable* *moderate Of his diete, sitting at his table.†  (source)
  • He's tired of their fangs, their litheness, their firm but ripe half-a-grapefruit breasts, their gluttony.†  (source)
    gluttony = an instance or habit of consuming too much -- especially eating and drinking too much
  • She wasn't a glutton, and it's not like we had anything to overeat anyway.†  (source)
    glutton = someone who consumes more than they should -- especially eating and drinking too much; or someone who persists in an activity even though it has negative consequences; or someone who loves a thing mentioned
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