hoggish
adjective
like or befitting a hog.
hoggishly
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a word derived from
hoggish.
Example Sentences
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Now she was almost over that abominable drop, and her body was farther and farther from reach, sleeping so hoggishly below her.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
He was a valorous opportunist who pounced hoggishly upon every opportunity Colonel Korn discovered for him and trembled in damp despair immediately afterwards at the possible consequences he might suffer.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Out from this peered a hideous, dog-like face, low browed, with pointed ears and a nose almost hoggishly flat.
From The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
"It isn't fair to keep it to yourself hoggishly, is it, fellows?"
From Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums by Mark Overton
How on earth could he go to bed, be hoggishly sleeping, while those chaps were marching out?
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
