Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a glutton.
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All five then began a system of begging and gluttonly eating which need not be described.
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A distinguished lady in Pennsylvania unfortunately mated with a dissipated and gluttonly husband was accustomed to give the butcher boy a dime for bringing home from market pork chops and sausage.
In other words, the deaths resulting from a lazy, gluttonly peace are many times multiplied over the deaths of war.
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But the vanquished invariably gave up to his conqueror the last thing he had swallowed, the victor receiving it in a gluttonly rather than a gracious spirit, but allowing his captive to escape.
Pavel Arkadievitch ate a great deal in an unpleasant and gluttonly way.
They make warm clothes out of the hide, perform gluttonly feats with the meat and then bring the oil home to the igloo where they light lamps and stoves.
She limited herself to two courses and two removes, but served such a quantity of side dishes that the most gluttonly of her guests, her husband, had no cause to complain.
Like his animal counterpart, the Pig often over-eats but unlike his gluttonly barnyard brother, the Chinese Pig is a cultivated, discriminating gourmet with a well-developed palate.
Adverb
In the manner of a glutton.
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Pilgrims, now, within that larder, / Through the nibbled pastry see / Creeping things, in foul disorder, / Feasting gluttonly.
Fill not your mouths gluttonly with large pieces, one upon the other.
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Then they drink all around, and sometimes they do drink right shamefully and gluttonly.
Such a scourge [i.e., pneumonia] that robs us gluttonly of our young and old, weak and strong, rich and poor needs our best thought and study.
Perhaps a caterpillar is observed in the yard gluttonly munching on the wife’s prized petunias.
The pickings are good. The City is strewn with stillborn. The hawk feeds gluttonly.
Numerous contestants gathered to gluttonly gorge their alimentary canal with as many burgers as possible.
Then a fourth camel entered the prairie and went on gluttonly eating its grass.
The Bullfrog Sat On the Lily Pad, So Glad That it was a United States Frog - Fat, There on the Lily Pad feeding so fast and gluttonly on all the ponds^([sic]) Resources...
In listening to Mr. Dingell, it sounds like the Medicare+Choice plan is some sort of carnivore that wanders into a region and gets fat on profits and, after fattening up, gluttonly wanders off for some strange reason, as if it doesn’t want to eat anymore.