gormandizing
Example Sentences
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gormandizing contest ended as it began, with songs and dances; in the latter amusement, however, few were now able to join; afterwards ensued a rude attempt at dramatic representation.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. by John M'lean
You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.
From Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson
First parents of the human species, whose gormandizing is historic, you who fell for the sake of an apple, what would you not have done for a turkey with truffles?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Clumsy, gormandizing clowns, fond of practical jokes, especially such as stealing eatables and drinkables.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
