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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Suddenly, Mickey is offering him a chance to play the main stage, which sets Sam’s greedier instincts into overdrive.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
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But his greedy schemes and her desire to keep her dog immortal led to the downfall of her once-thriving business and turned her into a woman on the run.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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Sawflies are ravenous insects that feed on a wide variety of landscape trees, shrubs, and conifers.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Screwworms—or technically New World Screwworms (NWS)—are parasitic flies that spawn hundreds of ravenous larvae in the wounds and orifices of a wide range of warm-blooded animals.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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