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Перевод: gluttony

[существительное]
ненасытность ; прожорливость ; обжорство; чревоугодие; полифагия

Тезаурус:

1. What sensible young thirteen-and-a-half-year-old would wish to take on board all those terrible sins like gluttony, cheating and the first inklings of immoral thoughts?
2. We asked my cousin if the poor laboratory rats had "gone for a Burton", and the sally caused to flit across our minds a phrase from The Anatomy of Melancholy condemning gluttony as "the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases".
3. Nevertheless, such is human weakness and the pull of gluttony that when no one was about, or I could ride the chiding of my family, I would creep into the kitchen, cut a slice of butter and then find a crumb or two to go with it.
4. Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink (in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it), and particularly careful when it came to alcohol.
5. Its courting of chaos, its materialism, its abuse of, and disrespect for, its resources, its spendthrift gluttony would be intolerable in any delicately-balanced and naturally-harmonious social order, the kind of world we need to seek out!
6. Ever since, he has been unable to rest and bemoans his gluttony and foolhardiness.
7. She has committed several sins, greed and gluttony being high on the list.
8. The rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is a great favourite of starlings, which provide an amusing display of gluttony as they devour the bright red autumn berries.
9. Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her, she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants, however troublesome it may be to others
10. He would need to feed beyond the point of gluttony, and then retreat to await the change.
11. Yet they were not there for celebration, and there was neither gluttony nor drunkenness.
12. In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony - an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads.
13. Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence: She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants.