hoggish
Americanadjective
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like or befitting a hog.
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selfish; gluttonous; filthy.
adjective
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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
Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury�with the sting left out�such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia.
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
"I don't believe he is rich enough to be hoggish," added Bobtail, whose impressions of Colonel Montague were not altogether favorable.
From Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. by Optic, Oliver
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