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- noun Plural form of
glutton .
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Examples
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The simplest explanation is that such people are "gluttons"; and the most romantic explanation is that there is some psychiatric reason making it necessary for them to overeat.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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(Compare Pr 17: 25). riotous men -- or, "gluttons" (Pr 23: 20, 21).
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Are they just that lonely, just starved for witty and intelligent repartee, or gluttons for punishment?
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But among these gluttons Ra Undreundre ranked highest.
THE WHALE TOOTH 2010
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As for being poor and happy, as Maslow's model suggests, happiness is stifled by to severe a shortage of the basics for our physical and socio-intellectual needs such as self esteem and actualization, as much as too much material inequality between people, this necessitates and causes stunted human development for the cookie gluttons, unable to realize the intrinsically more precious feelings of love or compassion because of their fixation with a bloated belly chakra.
Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Are they just that lonely, just starved for witty and intelligent repartee, or gluttons for punishment?
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The fault lies in our ghrelin, not ourselves, that we are gluttons.
Blame your brain for overeating ewillett 2009
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Those Chinese are wizards with vegetables, and gluttons for work.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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Why Americans continue to elect lazy power gluttons, who are only intent on destroying America, can only be attributed to low educational standards.
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They were not temperate as Chinagos were temperate; they were gluttons, eating prodigiously and drinking more prodigiously.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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