appetite

IPA: ˈæpʌtaɪt

noun

  • Desire to eat food or consume drink.
  • Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
  • The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
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Examples of "appetite" in Sentences

  • I was wondering if you can give some color as to your new term appetite with this institutional JV partners for acquisitions.
  • His incapability of constraining his appetite is a pretty good indicator of that; Ailes is an undisciplined pig in many respects.
  • As to the number of his motions (2 and somtimes 3 a day) I should not interfere with them so long as his appetite is not affected and he appears cheerfull.
  • Attend to the demands of appetite, but use all your judgment in determining whether it is a natural, undepraved craving of the system which speaks, or an acquired and vicious taste, and give or withhold accordingly; and, above all, never eat when you have _no appetite_.
  • I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper.
  • And supposing we should grant that this affection or disposition is the very thing which we call the appetite, it is probable that, by the operation of such kind of food as this, the nourishment may be made small, and so much of it as is convenient for Nature severed from the rest, so that the indigency proceeds not from the transmutation, but from the evacuation and purgation of the passages.

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