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gluttony

noun as in omnivorousness

noun as in overindulgence

noun as in rapaciousness

noun as in ravenousness

noun as in voracity

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Gluttony is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins.

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On this occasion, he credited an "unreal" pitch, and a surface ranked as the eighth-flattest across the first four days of a Test anywhere in the world since such data began being collected in 2007, adds perspective to England’s gluttony.

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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned: In the past few weeks I have watched the trailer for “Conclave” so many times it could be considered gluttony.

On the surface, the story of Red Lobster’s bankruptcy is about one of the seven deadly sins: gluttony.

But that doesn’t account for the gluttony of Red Lobster’s former private equity owners, San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital, or its subsequent corporate owners, the huge Bangkok-based seafood conglomerate Thai Union.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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