gormandizing
Example Sentences
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same may be said of soaking up gravy with bread, scraping up sauce with a spoon, scraping your plate and gormandizing upon one or two articles of food only.
From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young
The uncouth way in which they were gormandizing was terrible to witness.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer
Mr. Train was then in his prime—a large, fine-looking man, a gentleman in dress and manner, neither smoking, chewing, drinking, nor gormandizing.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Social glasses of wine are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing my utter scorn and contempt.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
