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piggish
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
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Example Sentences
If he cuts off a woman repeatedly, he comes across as rude or, worse, piggish.
Third, legal academia has to get its collective head out of the sand and stop being so piggish (I am mixing my metaphors).
Donald thought he would like Captain Muirhead, but he mistrusted those piggish blue eyes of his.
I bowed likewise, but I saw his little piggish eyes looking wickedly at me.
The rabbit beside me hopped a few feet and squatted again, and the fat bear sat up and blinked about him with his piggish eyes.
A hungry pig following a pail of buttermilk after one taste is not more piggish than this poor boy.
At the same time he could not endure Russian history, and, indeed, looked upon Russian customs in general as more or less piggish.
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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to piggish, such as: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, and close-fisted.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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