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Definition of glutton:

  • (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
  • (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia

Sentence Examples:

She makes them furious hunters, insatiable gluttons.

Gluttons and drunkards should be classed together.

Both were what the boxers call gluttons.

Mutters the pious glutton; "let us be resigned!"

What a glutton or a sot needs is power.

Roger was a glutton for his midnight musings.

The glutton crams himself at certain stated periods.

Luther is said to have been a glutton and a drunkard.

Then my old glutton can gobble up what's left.

And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor.

"I don't know" the glutton said evasively as he devoured a cookie.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.

He was a great glutton, exceedingly parsimonious, and very unpopular.

What is wanted, we understand, is more glutton and less mutt.

Our friend, we suspect, though no drunkard, is somewhat of a glutton.

Now Reddy Fox is also a glutton and very, very crafty.

The horse had been on short rations and was a glutton.

He is said to have been a glutton, and was certainly a drunkard.

He was not free from gluttony, but he was a judicious glutton.

The glutton dreams of a surfeit and its attendant unpleasant sensations.

The drunkard calls him a glutton whom he knows to be sober.

At bottom, two others of Death demolishing a glutton and a drunkard.

It is so much a day; the moderate eaters pay for the gluttons.

A glutton and a miser have strong desires of a very different type.

He was a glutton, who could not bear to see ladies too little clothed.

"His Highness is a glutton for work," the young man went on.

The doctors tell a bad story about pugs particularly being little gluttons.

Those who obey these rules "eat to live" and never become drunkards or gluttons.

The glutton, the idler, and the fool in their deadly path across history.

The licentious man hates the works of virtue, the glutton shrinks from them.

He took like a glutton of the first appetite, but could not give as heretofore.

At their feasts the Brethren ate like gluttons and drank till they were tipsy.

The gluttons would fain gorge themselves with food, the lustful with bodily excesses.

The same are properly gluttons, who devour all, as does the kite with his sparrow.

They are optical gluttons, feasting and fattening on the misfortunes of their fellow beings.

Under such a trial many boys would have turned into gluttons and cringing beggars.

She, with all her frugality and moderation, nevertheless made little gluttons of us boys.

"Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton."

Of the same style also is his answer to a glutton who boasted of his gluttony.

Prominent on one side is a miser and on the other a massive glutton etc., etc.

In fact, each one of you must in the interests of the State become a mutton glutton.

Unlike the majority of arctic animals, the fur of the glutton in winter grows darker.

By the same rule, if my brother is a glutton, I should abstain from food also.

This has sometimes been done, and he is frequently represented as a glutton and a drunkard.

He loves the person as a glutton likes his meal, or as a drunkard his liquor.

He was cruel, treacherous, and indolent, apathetic to public disaster, self-indulgent, frivolous, and a glutton.

"That" replied, or is said to have replied, Thackeray, "is because you are a sot, and a glutton."

The flesh of the glutton, like that of every other voracious animal, is very bad food.

He did not like a glutton, and he would tell the outlaw so in his own way.

I see the tiny drops spurt out, lapped up by the glutton as soon as they appear.

His school is more spiritual than Strauss's only as a gourmet is more spiritual than a glutton.

I think they do as the gluttons do, who are the first to pounce upon the dishes.

I've seen him at 'the Mulberry' at tea, gobbling cakes like a glutton and making such a noise.

There is no doubt in my mind that every man is a glutton before he is a drunkard.

Her thin lips were compressed with displeasure, and she very evidently thought our hero a glutton.

The fifth bough is the anxiety of gluttons, who seek only the delight of their swallow.

Many who think they are moderate eaters consume enough butter to put them in the glutton class.

And now that great glutton gobbles them all up at once, and makes nothing of it!

Now I come eating and drinking like other men, and you call me a glutton and a drunkard.

These snakes were the companions of low men and women, of drunkards, gluttons, and former prostitutes.

These idiotic, fighting gluttons of gulls had actually pointed out to him the object of his search.

A few moments later we emerged and discovered ourselves in a veritable whirlpool of young monetary gluttons.

The glutton gazed on it a moment with a rapturous eye; but there was no time to be lost.

And even if this were not so, the larks are too small to satisfy your hunger, you little gluttons.

Although the glutton lingered about the lake for a week or two, he did not again taste beaver meat.

Methinks I hear the voracious gluttons disputing the first snap, and pointing upwards their cold slimy noses.

He was a great rake, a glutton and a drunkard, talking and acting rashly in his drunken fits.

As my taste and appetite were gratified in nothing else, I indemnified myself by becoming a glutton of books.

A man becomes a glutton by accustoming himself to eat too much, a good walker by exercising his legs.

Besides sable and squirrel, the reindeer, the fox, the glutton, and the elk, are objects of chase.

Indeed, Genie would have made a little glutton of herself had not Adam wisely obviated that danger for her.

The glutton and the drunkard are liable to give way to explosions of rage and anger, to quarrels and discords.

Salvation Jim was a mine of foresight and resource, while the Jam-wagon proved himself an insatiable glutton for work.

They are such gluttons, and will gobble up their children in a moment if their meals are a little late.

Those that have them somewhat long and thin, are bold, impudent, unlearned, gluttons and very proud and scornful.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

With a curse of thorough contempt hurled at the silly glutton, the Pixie chief began his preparations for revenge.

Like all members of the cabbage family, Brussels sprouts are gluttons and positively must have heavy and rich ground.

A carelessness of life and beauty marks the glutton, the idler, and the fool in their deadly path across history.'

The air was filled with blasphemy and impiety, with the groans of the gluttons and the howling of drunkards.

Any man who outgrew in circumference his metal ring was looked upon as a lazy glutton, and consequently was disgraced.

For ten hours, I watch the insatiable glutton, who changes her point of attack as each wound sucked dries up.

When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.

When opportunity offers, it becomes a veritable glutton, and is then indolent and torpid at the close of its meal.

If a doctor prescribes a little nourishing food for his patient, is he to be blamed if that patient becomes a glutton?

He is, after all, a very greedy fellow, not at all particular about his diet, and, like all gluttons, easily snared.

The ration of a soldier is so large that a man who can eat it all in a day is renowned as a glutton.

He is young, and wants a bit more savvy, but he is a glutton for work and as plucky as they make them.

I eat like a glutton; near my left hand reposes a long baton of new bread, to which I help myself at will.

I saw the glutton, the idler, and the fool applauding, while brave and simple men walked in the horrors of hell.

A certain interest attaches to the myriad portraits which line the walls, chiefly of the Medici and comparatively recent worthies; but one must have a glutton's passion either for paint or history to wish to examine these.

When a man allows himself to become a glutton in the matter of smoking tobacco, he suffers for it; and if he becomes a glutton in the matter of eating meat, he just as certainly suffers in another way.

The professional did his best, and took his punishment like a glutton; but he could do nothing against the long reach of his adversary, who stopped and countered as coolly as if he had only the gloves on.

The learned man is a glutton as to books, but the educated man knows that, no matter how much is read, benefit is only derived from the thoughts that develop our own thoughts and strengthen our own minds.

The small gluttons, though full of cow's juice, will nevertheless find appetite for such a luxury as mother's milk; but their energies being blunted, they will have power to do no more than to prevent an accumulation within the glands.

The priests and people of different parishes entered into formal contests, which of them should have the greatest glutton mass, i.e., which of them should devour the greatest quantity of meat and drink in honor of the Holy Virgin.

The worst of it was that when they found out that the poor Northerner was trying to keep soul and body together by buying extra things, they set a doctor upon him to persuade him not to be such a glutton.

I would fix a reasonable rate within the ability of every one; then bread should be distributed according to the number of mouths, because there are gluttons who seize all they can get for themselves, and leave the poor still in want.

The Satyrs were hideous, clumsy, hairy monsters, with flat faces, little eyes, and huge mouths, great gluttons, often drunk, and sometimes mischievous: most of them were dull and stupid, but many of them had plenty of sense and knowledge.

This unusual proceeding is followed by an onslaught so vigorous, that the royal glutton forgets its usual vigilant precautions for its own safety, and becomes so completely gorged as to be unable to rise from the spot on which it has breakfasted.