as in greedy
having a huge appetite
gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet
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Recent Examples of gluttonous
Daisy May Cooper’s gluttonous commitment alone puts this one in the Taskmaster Hall of Fame.
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Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
With today’s gluttonous demand for energy, nuclear is a realistic concept.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025
Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
The pop star was among the six women who went to space aboard Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in April, a trip many commentators, including some fellow celebrities, criticized as gluttonous and wasteful.
—EW.com, 26 June 2025
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Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
With today’s gluttonous demand for energy, nuclear is a realistic concept.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025
Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
The pop star was among the six women who went to space aboard Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in April, a trip many commentators, including some fellow celebrities, criticized as gluttonous and wasteful.
—EW.com, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gluttonous
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But Septime Webre’s choreography is supposed to have the air of wild and sometimes frenzied social dancing, of Charlestons and Fox Trots and Black Bottoms, of indulging the glorious excesses of the 1920s before the greedier side of the American Dream comes crashing down a few years later.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Oct. 2025
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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The problem with this concept is the fact that the region around ravenous black holes should emit strongly in the X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum, but that doesn't seem to be the case for little red dots or for BiRD.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Other photos in this series have odd and unsettling stories behind them, including the one that captured an apparently ravenous witch.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
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Rogen lands a few funny lines, but the jokes mostly serve to distract from the point of the story: that freedom is ephemeral and easily corrupted, while humans are inherently piggish (as opposed to the other way around), seizing the first opportunity to take more than their share.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
11 Sep. 2024
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“Gluttonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gluttonous. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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