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

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

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

And you will cosset him in them—to save his hoggish dignity487 and buttress up his heavy pride.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox