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Meanings of gluttony in English
Allegorical human figure personifying gluttony as of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Related terms
Over-indulgence and over-consumption, such as of food.
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Examples for "intemperance"
Examples for "intemperance"
1
The danger is in the unrestrained appetite, in intemperance that becomes habit.
2
The same law operates as unerringly in the inherited predisposition to intemperance.
3
In many instances, there is great intemperance in both eating and drinking.
4
Red Jacket felt that intemperance had been the bane of his life.
5
In the fall of 1837 he was dismissed, I think, for intemperance.
1
To change a child's overeating habits, you need to change your lifestyle.
2
Eructation of gas and gas in the bowels are indications of overeating.
3
A bad taste in the mouth is usually a sign of overeating.
4
The greatest precaution was taken to keep the suffering emigrants from overeating.
5
It is necessary to masticate these foods very well, and avoid overeating.
1
Pray, Sir Poet, which bolgia was set apart for those who are lost by the 'peccato della gola?'
2
He was hanging upside down in his fig tree, but he leaped down at my approach and offered me gola nuts.
3
There's Alec, Henry, Winnie, Ellen, Mary, Gola, Seebucky, Crawford, Sarah and Ruby.
4
Gola's refreshingly frank and outspoken comedy breaks taboos, with no fear of controversy.
5
His stint on Loyiso Gola's satire news show will stand him in good stead.
1
Glass jars of gula malacca, the delicious toffee-sugar of the Orient.
2
Because of its local flavours, such as the gula melaka ice-cream and the delicious toppings all made from scratch.
3
Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.
4
You have to move them into managerial positions, and early on, Gula said.
5
I took the subject, and found in Gula a suitable model.
Usage of gluttony in English
1
Objection 1: It would seem that gluttony is not a capital vice.
2
There were also indications of gluttony in the motion of her lips.
3
It's not an existing category and you know we banned gluttony records.
4
Objection 1: It would seem that gluttony is the greatest of sins.
5
Therefore the species of gluttony are not distinguished according to the aforesaid.
6
The global gluttony for scandal will always follow celebrity and high-profile personalities.
7
Objection 1: It would seem that gluttony is not a mortal sin.
8
The composition is the apotheosis of domestic comfort, conjugal peace, and gluttony.
9
Indulgent friendship feigned to believe this fiction, but fruit of immoderate gluttony.
10
He then proceeded to ask, whether he had offended God by gluttony.
11
He was not free from gluttony, but he was a judicious glutton.
12
The sin that was worse than gluttony or sloth to any Iowan.
13
What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence?
14
Nor was it admiration that thus inspired me; it was rather like gluttony.
15
Deprived of the pleasure of drinking, they make up for it in gluttony.
16
This is not gluttony with the savage; he knows no better.
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Catalan
Spanish
Gluttony through the time
Gluttony across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common