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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
- I think that most of us would rather be called lynx-eyed than gluttonous, and certainly a lynx is a much handsomer beast than a glutton. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
- It is the currency that bought infrastructural investment and a high standard of living, and the curse that attracted the gluttonous attention of the most powerful countries in the world.
- The only issue I've encountered is that the bread stales fast, and I'm never able to eat the whole loaf quickly enough (unless I am being particularly gluttonous). Is That Legal?: March 2008 Archives
- If you become less gluttonous, less greedy, less myopic, more savvy about the world in general, they don't win; you win.
- He eats because he is gluttonous, not hungry.
- this man eats gluttonously!
- The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- I invariably order too much and end up feeling gluttonous, but no matter - there's no substitute for excellent sushi when you're in the mood for it.
- “The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—” What Would Betty Do?
- He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish.