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synonyms for piggishness

  • avarice
  • excess
  • gluttony
  • hunger
  • longing
  • selfishness
  • acquisitiveness
  • avidity
  • covetousness
  • craving
  • cupidity
  • eagerness
  • edacity
  • esurience
  • indulgence
  • intemperance
  • rapacity
  • ravenousness
  • voracity
  • gormandizing
  • graspingness
  • insatiableness
  • swinishness
  • the gimmies
On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to piggishness, such as: avarice, excess, gluttony, hunger, longing, and selfishness.

antonyms for piggishness

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  • apathy
  • dislike
  • distaste
  • indifference
  • benevolence
  • generosity
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How to use piggishness in a sentence

As we have never gone in for hog-raising he had learned the meaning of piggishness before he learned anything about pigs.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHUR
The organs which are given us for its sustenance are not to be denied by gluttony and piggishness, either in food or drink.
THE POWER OF WOMANHOOD, OR MOTHERS AND SONSELLICE HOPKINS
Or is it simply the piggishness of me that makes you call me a monster.
THE IMITATORPERCIVAL POLLARD
You would like to go back to the land, which is a favourable place for your kind of piggishness.
THE SEA-WOLFJACK LONDON
To get it patented, to make money from it, to revel in piggishness with all night in while other men do the work.
THE SEA-WOLFJACK LONDON
By their incessant vice-crusades they reduce the romance of sex to furtiveness and piggishness.
THE AMERICAN CREDOGEORGE JEAN NATHAN
It is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship, where my piggishness flourishes.
THE SEA-WOLFJACK LONDON
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WORDS RELATED TO PIGGISHNESS

  • acquisitiveness
  • avarice
  • avidity
  • covetousness
  • craving
  • cupidity
  • eagerness
  • edacity
  • esurience
  • excess
  • gluttony
  • gormandizing
  • graspingness
  • hunger
  • indulgence
  • insatiableness
  • intemperance
  • longing
  • piggishness
  • rapacity
  • ravenousness
  • selfishness
  • swinishness
  • the gimmies
  • voracity
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.