piggish

Example Sentences

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A couple of would-be thieves in Kentucky have been arrested for their alleged piggish behavior.

From Fox News • Nov. 19, 2019

It shows a girl with long golden hair, sneezing so explosively that the torrential discharge has turned her nose into a piggish snout.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

Bermudez says she was driven to protest by the allegedly piggish behavior of men with whom she worked at the Transportation Security Administration headquarters across the street.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2016

Some of my Slate colleagues, in their otherwise insightful weekly Mad Men commentaries, rolled their eyes at the corporate chieftains’ piggish treatment of Peggy and especially Joan, finding its villainy “cartoonish.”

From Slate • May 15, 2015

There’s some small comfort in not being the only one—mean and piggish of me, I know, but I can’t help it.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein