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
Along the way, the administration recast the U.S. commitment to European security from a mutually beneficial partnership to a sucker’s game that enabled gluttonous free-riding at Americans’ expense.
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Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
And there's history of the market going from existential panic to exhilarating audacity in a blink, such as when the 1998 near-bear market on hedge-fund blowups reversed to give way to the gluttonous risk binge of 1999.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 June 2025
And most importantly of all, gluttonous ticket prices have priced out the working classes.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Critics call it ‘gluttonous’ Not everyone was supportive of the idea of the trip before its Monday launch.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
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Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
And there's history of the market going from existential panic to exhilarating audacity in a blink, such as when the 1998 near-bear market on hedge-fund blowups reversed to give way to the gluttonous risk binge of 1999.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 June 2025
And most importantly of all, gluttonous ticket prices have priced out the working classes.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Critics call it ‘gluttonous’ Not everyone was supportive of the idea of the trip before its Monday launch.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gluttonous
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Left-wing antisemitism, which cast Jews as greedy capitalists, existed as well, especially in France, but Jew-baiting remained primarily a right-wing pursuit, the work of illiberal nativists who saw a tiny minority as polluting the purity of their racial or religious communities.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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But given both the film’s protagonist (gig worker Eyüp, played by the director) and title character (Eyüp’s greedy boss) are participants in the dance, this Turkish writer can’t help but see it as a biting social statement.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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The ravenous larvae create ghastly wounds that can be deadly to livestock and wild animals.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Her pen swoops and dives, like a ravenous moray eel.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
11 Sep. 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 29 Sep. 2025.
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