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synonyms for hogging

  • acquisitive
  • avaricious
  • avid
  • close-fisted
  • eager
  • ensurient
  • envious
  • gluttonous
  • grabby
  • grasping
  • green-eyed
  • grudging
  • itchy
  • jealous
  • keen
  • mercenary
  • piggish
  • prehensile
  • rapacious
  • ravenous
  • selfish
  • swinish
  • voracious
  • yearning
On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hogging, such as: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, eager, and ensurient.

antonyms for hogging

MOST RELEVANT
  • benevolent
  • generous
  • giving
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How to use hogging in a sentence

Another group date, a roast, featured the other men ripping into Moss for being an attention hog.
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I know I had many faults as a room-mate, but I believe my habit of selfishly hogging the bathroom was the worst.
VACATION WITH THE TUCKER TWINSNELL SPEED
The fact still remains that Epsilon had better be habitable or Pan-Asia will scream we're hogging it.
COMPETITIONJAMES CAUSEY
This is known as the "hogging down" method of harvesting corn.
NORTH DAKOTAVARIOUS
"I think the way you two fellows are hogging the Ys and captaincies around here is disgraceful," complained the Codfish one night.
FRANK ARMSTRONG AT COLLEGEMATTHEW M. COLTON
To bend or give way from heavy weight; to press down towards the middle; the opposite of hogging.
THE SAILOR'S WORD-BOOKWILLIAM HENRY SMYTH
Having done this to their satisfaction they untied the hogging ropes and allowed the steers to gain their feet.
TALES FROM THE X-BAR HORSE CAMPWILL C. BARNES
Lying hogging there, lolling and loafing in bed, as if he had all day to finish nothing in!
CUPID IN AFRICAP. C. WREN
She was so weak that she supported herself against a rock; at last she rolled on her back, hogging the dog in her fore paws.
DIARY IN AMERICA, SERIES ONEFREDERICK MARRYAT (AKA CAPTAIN MARRYAT)
We sit back and roast the trusts to a fare-you-well for hogging all there is in sight.
A DAUGHTER OF THE DONSWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO HOGGING

  • acquisitive
  • avaricious
  • avid
  • close-fisted
  • eager
  • ensurient
  • envious
  • gluttonous
  • grabby
  • grasping
  • green-eyed
  • grudging
  • hogging
  • itchy
  • jealous
  • keen
  • mercenary
  • piggish
  • prehensile
  • rapacious
  • ravenous
  • selfish
  • swinish
  • voracious
  • yearning
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.