Meaning & use
Gluttonous
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Excessively greedy or self-indulgent, especially with food and drink.
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The gluttonous king ordered a feast with a hundred dishes for himself alone.
Critics called the merger a gluttonous grab for market power.
A note on using this word
It derives from "glutton," ultimately from the Latin gluttire, "to swallow," and gluttony is one of the traditional seven deadly sins in Christian tradition.
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