hoggish
adjective
like or befitting a hog.
hoggishness
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a word derived from
hoggish.
Example Sentences
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Trade and shipping, and clubs and culture, and prestige, and guns, and a fine select class of gentry and aristocracy, with every modern improvement, cannot begin to salve or defend such stupendous hoggishness.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
It was pure, cussed hoggishness, for there was more land than anybody had any use for, but they must grab everything in sight, no matter what the cost.
From The Orphan by Clarence E. Mulford
The conversation had at any cost to be changed, and Martin was pleased when the general attention was directed to the colossal hoggishness of Flannery, who was mixing jam, sardines, and potted meat.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
This is kept up, if the crop only lasts long enough until they have made themselves thoroughly sick by their hoggishness.
From Schwatka's Search by William H. (William Henry) Gilder
I was horrified at the ill-manners of the hog, though it all seemed of a piece with his habitual hoggishness.
From The God of Love by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
