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
Yanick Parent, Guillaume Cartigny, and Mychael Blouin are the masterminds behind the quaint restaurant, creating a boisterous menu of traditional Quebecois foods—usually with a gluttonous upgrade.
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Pamela MacNaughtan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
The pop star was among the six women who went to space aboard billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in April, a trip many commentators, including some fellow celebrities, criticized as gluttonous and wasteful.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Nov. 2025
Other Redditors wondered if there was any truth to the restaurant staff's comments, and suggested that some guests may have actually been gluttonous.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Check him out in all his gluttonous glory.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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Pamela MacNaughtan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Nov. 2025
The pop star was among the six women who went to space aboard billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in April, a trip many commentators, including some fellow celebrities, criticized as gluttonous and wasteful.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Nov. 2025
Other Redditors wondered if there was any truth to the restaurant staff's comments, and suggested that some guests may have actually been gluttonous.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Check him out in all his gluttonous glory.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gluttonous
Adjective
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Each is still saying the other has unrealistic and greedy demands.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
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Marquee recruits in Ohio and North Carolina all but cleared the field, New Hampshire and Illinois seem settled, and the fact Democrats are looking with greedy ambition at Alaska shows how underwater the Republican brand is with voters.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
17 Feb. 2026
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And as such are grappling with the complex history of figures like him, whose lust for profit is matched only by a prescient sense of what the world will need next to satiate the ravenous maw of industry and global capital.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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My memories of particular meals have been overwritten by the ravenous après-ski hunger that then drove me.—
Andrew Fedorov,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.—
Michael Deeds
January 1,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Jan. 2026
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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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“Gluttonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gluttonous. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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