gormandize
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Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, the father betrays certain tendencies to gormandize not altogether in harmony with the profession of an ascetic….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Its walls are thin and yielding, and may become unnaturally distended, as in the case of those who subsist on a bulky, innutritious diet, and of those who habitually gormandize.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
Charley swallows a great gulp of tea in token of submission and so disperses the Druidical ruins that Miss Smallweed charges her not to gormandize, which "in you girls," she observes, is disgusting.
From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles
And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
From Mother by Gorky, Maksim
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The Merchant of Venice
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Bleak House
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Henry IV, Part 2
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