[
UK
/pˈɪɡɪʃ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
swinish slavering over food
piggish table manners
How To Use piggish In A Sentence
- Later, at the read-through, he dials down the sound of piggish laughter of the cast and crew until only his own breathing can be heard.
- Such profuse adulation of the rich exists side-by-side with occasional media trashing of individuals as overly piggish or personally flawed.
- Her husband replied, his piggish eyes glinting.
- This is piggish behaviour, yet his women, even when they leave him or he leaves them, never seem to criticise him very much, and that's enough to make anyone cheerful, even in late middle age.
- The bacon-flavored themes probably aren't purposefully repetitive, but that's OK because these seemingly unrelated story lines share a common bond: They are each part of what might be called piggish capitalism-an economic theory that mixes subsidization, consolidation and deregulation and that now endangers us all. In These Times
- piggishly, he took two pieces of cake
- The lumbering giant turned about, it's piggish face framed with an expression of pure malice.
- Seria almost curled her lip at the piggish behavior of the prince.
- Whenever it's time to jack up the joke factor, they become loud, piggish, and infantile.
- I'm going to be the only girl surrounded by piggish boys at lunch.