What's the difference between gluttonous and piggish?
Gluttonous
Definition:
(a.) Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
(2) The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once , which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Not once do I think about what isn’t on the plate, so gluttonous is my embrace of what is.
(4) He was fortunate enough to fall in with the archetypal production team of the coke-dusted, money-swamped, excess-craving 1980s, Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson – gluttons for style over substance and masters of the hi-concept pitch meeting – after they saw a Saab car commercial Tony had shot.
(5) You either have to be young or a glutton for punishment."
(6) In this sense (whether we agree with it or not), all modern foodists, as the Atlantic writer BR Myers argues in his incisive "Moral Crusade Against Foodies" , are certainly gluttons.
(7) The Obama campaign is now running a new campaign ad against Mitt Romney that rails against a litany of Wall Street "criminals" and "gluttons of greed", but as David Dayen astutely notes , those examples were all imprisoned during the Bush era because the Obama administration has prosecuted no significant Wall Street executives for the 2008 financial collapse and thus have none of their own examples to highlight: "So the Obama campaign could not fill a list of three Wall Street criminals that the Obama Justice Department actually sent to jail.
(8) Scott Walker announces 2016 campaign with checklist of conservative aims Read more If you are a glutton for punishment, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Monday announcement of his presidential aspirations was just a taste of the masochistic romp ahead: all the hallmarks of everything odious and petty about the 2012 campaign are there already, only ramped up and accompanied by bad ideas copied from other states.
(9) These are men and women, living in shelters and out of their cars, who have government jobs – the kind of workers conservatives love to paint as greedy, gluttonous pigs .
(10) A study was made of the pathogenicity of brucellae culture isolated from various wild and Game animals of the extreme North of the USSR (wolf, polar fox, ermine, glutton).
(11) Hermitage and Middleton have also found a stalwart supporter in Edward Clay , the former high commissioner to Kenya, who famously spoke of gluttonous Kenyan officials "vomiting over our [Kenyans' and donors'] shoes".
(12) Vietnam is known for its fresh ingredients and healthy cuisine but Obama’s choice of bun cha, which with its fatty pork and sweet broth is at the more gluttonous end of the country’s culinary spectrum, might have raised the eyebrows of his wife Michelle who has long campaigned for healthy eating.
(13) Nobody from Bank of America or Wells Fargo or Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs or Bear Stearns or Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch or even Countrywide or Ameriquest was available to stand in as a 'glutton of greed' in this advertisement.
(14) Is there any communication or entertainment or social format that has not yet been commandeered by the ravenous gastrimarge for his own gluttonous purpose?