GLUTTONS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

gluttons

noun

plural of glutton

as in pigs

one who eats greedily or too much he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake

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Recent Examples of gluttons All of these people are gluttons at the feast. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026 Not to mention the obese little gluttons. — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025

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Noun

The organizations' research also found that expanding deforestation linked to biomass production could impact undisturbed forests that serve as critical habitats for vulnerable and endangered species such as tarsiers, endemic buffalo and pigs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
In recent years, the group has also thrown millions of dollars into lobbying for the very unpopular practice of keeping pregnant pigs in tiny crates — a method that big, industrial operations are much more likely to use than smaller farms.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026

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Noun

In the public imagination, Housewives with a capital H are fame-hungry attention hogs who would rather throw the $400 bottle of Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux that’s sitting in front of us than sip it, as Cosby is hesitantly doing now.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
But both the National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council work to protect and expand a hyper-industrial vision of American hog farming.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hogs

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