gormandizer
Example Sentences
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The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer.
From Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
The prospectus said that the best and most wholesome food would be served out to us in abundance, and to look at the bill of fare one would think it enough to satisfy any gormandizer.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer
The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
