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gobbling
adjective as in grabby
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- ravening
- ravenous
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
adjective as in hoggish
adjective as in piggish
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
noun as in overeating
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
The pie continues to expand, but foreign automakers are gobbling up slightly larger pieces this year than last.
Defying the economic recession, strapped shoppers are gobbling up high-priced gizmos from Apple, Amazon, and others.
It is to say that there is a bunch of free advertising out there that millions of us have been gobbling up for years.
The banks are gobbling up the stimulus dollars, and savings-eating zombies still stalk the land.
The contemporary-art world seems to be successfully gobbling up Street art.
Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock."
His mate, meanwhile, was gobbling the lily-root as if she had not eaten for a week.
You fellers vot iss always gobbling yet, you iss quit it alreatty!
While vocal and fly-gobbling talents are tenderly fostered, dignified Wisdom is not only neglected, but persecuted.
The bear appeared to be listening also; there was gobbling and a pause; more gobbling and another pause—oh!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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