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gluttony

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glut·ton·y  (gltn-)
n. pl. glut·ton·ies
Excess in eating or drinking.
gluttony [ˈglʌtənɪ]
n
the act or practice of eating to excess
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gluttonygluttony - habitual eating to excess            
intemperance - the quality of being intemperate
greediness, hoggishness, piggishness - an excessive desire for food
rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity, edacity, esurience - extreme gluttony
2.gluttonygluttony - eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
overeating, gula
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
gluttony
noun greed, rapacity, voracity, greediness, voraciousness, piggishness Gluttony is a deadly sin.
Translations
gluttony [ˈglʌtənɪ] N → glotonería f, gula f
gluttony [ˈglʌtəni] n
(= greed) → gloutonnerie f
(= sin) → gourmandise f
gluttony
n → Völlerei f, → Fresserei f (inf)
gluttony [ˈglʌtənɪ] n → ghiottoneria, golosità; (sin) → gola
gluttony [ˈglʌtənɪ] n → ghiottoneria, golosità; (sin) → gola


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To show you how fortuitous was development in those days let me state that had it not been for the gluttony of Lop-Ear I might have brought about the domestication of the dog.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
If, regardless of that counsel, you choose to make a beast of yourself now, and over-eat and over-drink yourself till you turn the good victuals into poison, who is to blame if, hereafter, while you are suffering the torments of yesterday's gluttony and drunkenness, you see more temperate men sitting down to enjoy themselves at that splendid entertainment which you are unable to taste?
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
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