gormandizer

Example Sentences

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But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer.

From Mrs. Red Pepper by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Paul hated him as a trespasser and a gormandizer.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey