gormandizing
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.
From Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson
He was an easy, gormandizing, good fellow, shapelessly fat, and he never had stirred himself during his month of freedom to do any courting.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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
He wore away our forks and spoons With hard, incessant gormandizing; The Baker's, and, for some blue moons, The Milkman's bill were quite surprising.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 by Various
