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overindulgence

n. An act of overindulge; indulgence in too much; pleasure or consumption taken in excess of what is satisfying or necessary.

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overindulgence

n. excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" [syn: excess]

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Aside from the dogs, the restriction made the biggest difference to Mooney and me, puffy-eyed and lethargic from the previous night of overindulgence.

The third morning that Cissie felt sick she knew it was not from an overindulgence either of mushrooms or of turnips or of the sour hard apples that Joe had brought back after his scrounging expedition.

She’d spoiled us with overindulgence and babying—that much was obvious—and now it was up to him to repair the damage she had done.

Ferrars died of acute gastritis, helped on by habitual overindulgence in alcoholic beverages.

And after bacon and eggs, cold beef and pickled onions, and a flagon of beer another simple pleasure, that of eating his fill and more, the knowledge that he was eating too much serving as a sauce to him who kept himself almost invariably within bounds and who looked upon overindulgence usually with suspicion and contempt.

And after bacon and eggs, cold beef and pickled onions, and a flagon of beer - another simple pleasure, that of eating his fill and more, the knowledge that he was eating too much serving as a sauce to him who kept himself almost invariably within bounds and who looked upon overindulgence usually with suspicion and contempt.

Even the Simbiari had begun to loosen up and numbers of them, dazed from overindulgence in carbonated water, were heedlessly dripping emerald mucus into the shamrock patches.

On occasion we overindulge, but never on such a grand and fulminant scale as the overindulgences of the Christians.

If they continued to believe he had grown bloated and corpulent because of excess, through his own overindulgences to flaunt his success, he could retain his power.

True, previous generations had had their overindulgences, especially alcohol, but for many of those coming of age in the 1960s, drugs became an integral part of everyday life.

There was also half a package of processed cheese, but wild overindulgence in that shit as a grade-schooler had apparently destroyed my craving for it.

Davina Goronwy didn't remind Sandy of a Percheron, but her short, sturdy body brought to mind Welsh ponies, Welsh corgies, and overindulgence in Welsh rarebit.