glutton
noun
a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
gluttonously
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a word derived from
glutton.
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a word derived from
gluttonous.
gluttonousadjectivetending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
Example Sentences
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Despite my having read history gluttonously for more than 50 years, January 2025 found me remarkably innocent of the world’s greatest living academic historians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
We’re just trying to use our art to gluttonously consume the world.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2015
Best of all, in most cases you can gluttonously feed your theater addiction without spending a ton of money: Tickets for shows at the forthcoming New York International Fringe Festival, for example, are just $18.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
But of all Wimbledon's more-iconic quirks and traditions—the tennis whites, strawberries and umbrellas—there's one that receives slightly less recognition but deserves a lot more: Second Monday, the most gluttonously glorious day in tennis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2011
The island attracted saltwater fish into its subterranean tunnels—how, I don’t know; perhaps fish ate the algae as gluttonously as I did.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
