gluttony
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Gluttony is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
A version of the show — seven 10-minute sketches, each by a different playwright, occasioned by the sins of Gluttony, Pride, Lust, Wrath, Envy, Sloth and Greed, was first produced by Miami New Drama.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021
Gluttony may be the only thing we can fault them for.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2020
Not the ones with which the singer had regaled his audiences almost 40 years ago, but diatribes on designated themes: Hypocrisy; Virtue; Temperance; Gluttony; Justice and Prudence, commissioned from the writer and critic Luc Sante.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018
These dispositions, so ordinary that they almost pass unnoticed, were named by our blunt forefathers the Seven Deadly Sins of Pride, Anger, Envy, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust.
From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Underhill, Evelyn
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