piggishness

Example Sentences

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A certain piggishness was always part of his act, wasn’t it?

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2017

As if by magic, my piggishness had been turned into a compliment to the pastry chef, Miro Uskokovic, and my happiness had become the restaurant’s.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016

It means “pig ” but has a specific connotation of piggishness and gluttony.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2015

Crack down on the piggishness of defense contractors.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hundred years from now people will be as ashamed of us for our piggishness as we are of our eighteenth-century forbears for their wine-swilling to the detriment of their 229descendants.

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo