hoggish
Americanadjective
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like or befitting a hog.
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selfish; gluttonous; filthy.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- hoggishly adverb
- hoggishness noun
Etymology
Origin of hoggish
Example Sentences
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How hoggish and self-indulgent the Yankees are, knowing a cheat might help them win a few more games and raise their television ratings.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2013
I stop on the A82's muddy shoulder and discover I'm more angry at myself than at the hoggish trucker.
From Time Magazine Archive
In my opinion this letter should have been next to an article on Blue Boy, for a more hoggish, boorish display of feeling it has never been my misfortune to read.
From Time Magazine Archive
One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets.
From Time Magazine Archive
What hoggish calamitie, and deformed mishap, so greeuously and vntimely shall abandon from mee my most desired and florishing Polia, Farewell the merror of all vertue, and true perfection of beautie, farewell.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert
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