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gulping
adjective as in breathless
adjective as in grabby
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- guzzling
- hoggish
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- ravening
- ravenous
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
adjective as in hoggish
adjective as in piggish
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
Example Sentences
Unable to fold herself into a massive decorative vase and roll herself into her pool, she settled on gulping down 100 benzos.
It’s the stuff of popcorn binging and soda gulping, a classic summertime treat.
“You feel feverish, feel pain, and get tons of headaches. Once you’re at home, the pain starts. In you shoulders, back and arms,” Ródriguez said, gulping down water during a break.
Marchais remembers his family’s house in Carentan, Normandy, shaking during bombardments that sounded “like thunder” and how his mother stunned him by gulping down a bottle of strong Normandy cider when they were sheltering in their basement, declaring as she finished it: “That’s another one that the Germans won’t drink!”
“And the interview is the process by which this fish finds himself out of his bowl, gulping for air — because Emily Maitlis does not even need to be rude or aggressive, she just needs to not agree to her side of that contract. And suddenly he is a creature that cannot get the oxygen.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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