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- noun Plural form of
appetite .
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Examples
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The power to put aside unreasonable passions and appetites is called “virtue” (indeed, originally, the word “virtue” simply meant “power.”)
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The power to put aside unreasonable passions and appetites is called “virtue” (indeed, originally, the word “virtue” simply meant “power.”)
Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009
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Boys are encouraged to have big appetites from a very young age.
The truth about men, women and food Eva Wiseman 2010
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The result was a profusion of disparate businesses indulging their own short-term appetites for profits, largely immune from having their performance evaluated on a risk-adjusted basis.
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They don't want to go to counseling when they're obviously depressed and need it, are they going to go to learn to restrain appetites and exercise more?
Medpundit 2003
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Every one has a body with certain appetites that need satisfying: hunger, sex, thirst, the desire to be with each other, - the herd instinct - all of these things are passions and desires and appetites of the body.
Is There An Answer? 1955
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There is another tribe of desires, which are commonly termed appetites, and are the immediate consequences of the absence of some irritative motions.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Over the adult years, it became evident that those with the ability to curtail their short-term appetites early in life fared significantly better in life on most any level one would measure from relationships, income levels, job satisfaction and so forth.
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Over the adult years, it became evident that those with the ability to curtail their short-term appetites early in life fared significantly better in life on most any level one would measure from relationships, income levels, job satisfaction and so forth.
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Over the adult years, it became evident that those with the ability to curtail their short-term appetites early in life fared significantly better in life on most any level one would measure from relationships, income levels, job satisfaction and so forth.
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