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n. - Extreme gluttony; Excessive desire to eat.

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  • And they have the edacity to say are troops were wrong.
  • Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions as we wantonly indulge our edacity.
  • No guide book had adequately prepared us for the edacity of India's street peddlers.
  • In his classic "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe were thinly disguised Wall Street megalomaniacs suffering from gluttonous edacity.
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