gluttonous

Example Sentences

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On the darker side, I’ve seen gluttonous greed and an utterly neurotic need to fit in and be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

In literature, it quietly signalled comfort or complacency; in films, it became a shorthand for the lazy official, gluttonous uncle, or a corrupt policeman.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

Between gluttonous portions of stringy ropa vieja, Jesse appears to be a man far from what he was chasing in clubs and juke joints.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2023

But where food porn elicits a desire for gluttonous indulgence, pantry porn taps into a different cultural desire: the orderly arrangement of abundance.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023

But apparently the procedure was struggling against a gluttonous appetite, because she was bulging in all the wrong places.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman