GLUTTONY in a Sentence

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It's more about the gluttony of our culture: There's a young person who works here and her top desk drawer is just full of candy.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLUTTONY
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gluttony
 n.  excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity
Classic Sentence:
1  While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  These men were Saxons, and not free by any means from the national love of ease and good living which the Normans stigmatized as laziness and gluttony.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Curiosity is a sort of gluttony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
4  It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made me what I am.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
5  Sins of anger, envy of others, gluttony, vanity, disobedience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  It's more about the gluttony of our culture: There's a young person who works here and her top desk drawer is just full of candy.