What is "gluttony"

Usage examples of "gluttony".

InHoratian and Petronian formulations the egocentricity of which both gluttony and bad manners are signs overrides the good will implied by dining and imposes on the proper expectations of guests.

He was about the fattest man that Vickers had ever seen, an emotional baby with a mind like a vise who had long ago abandoned all ideas except power and gluttony.

Nearly always I moved silently among the merrymakers observing as they sank into gluttony, drunkenness and debaucheries of the most unspeakable depravity.

And why else would you hide from your family at every meal if not because your gluttony shamed you?

The third species of gluttony is, when a man devoureth his meat, and hath no rightful manner of eating.

Florida legislators, and efforts to curb the annual gluttony in Tallahassee usually fall short.

These proceedings excited my covetousness, or, rather, my gluttony, and, not satisfied with levying a tax upon the ignorant, I became a tyrant, and I refused well-merited approbation to all those who declined paying the contribution I demanded.

Right now they're getting ready to heave some august old chappy after eight solid days of memorial drinking, testimonial orgies, inheritance soirees, and commemorative gluttony.

Every spirit, Whose song bewails his gluttony indulg'd Too grossly, here in hunger and in thirst Is purified.

He had once described to a fellow-writer the impression produced on him by that plaster face, so capaciously ugly, as though comprehending the whole of human life, sharing all man's gluttony and lust, his violence and rapacity, but sharing also his strivings toward love and reason and serenity.

There was no way to tell which acts of plunder had been prompted by the charity-lust of the Lawsons and which by the gluttony of Cuffy Meigs—no way to tell which communities had been immolated to feed another community one week closer to starvation and which to provide yachts for the pull-peddlers.

Andrews, noting their vehement alteration from competent frugality into excessive gluttony to be brought out of England with James the First (who had been long time prisoner there under the fourth and fifth Henries, and at his return carried divers English gentlemen into his country with him, whom he very honourably preferred there), doth vehemently exclaim against the same in open Parliament holden at Perth, 1433, before the three estates, and so bringeth his purpose to pass in the end, by force of his learned persuasions, that a law was presently made there for the restraint of superfluous diet.

Surely it would be a sort of gluttony to wish excess of that which is pleasant in moderation.

The Mouser still looked a bit sick from his share in the running -- he was truly in woefully bad trim from his months of lazy gluttony.

Supper was at dusk, and sometimes, what was called a rere-supper followed—an occasion for much carousing and gluttony.