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Piggish

adjective
1.
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.  Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish.  "The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" , "Swinish slavering over food"



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"Piggish" Quotes from Famous Books



... Smoots Beste's piggish eyes twinkled round the bar-room, looked up at the ceiling, down at the floor, anywhere but into Bough's. He spat, and said in a ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... in the church being over, and divers persons of piggish solemnity of aspect dispersing, two of the latter detach themselves from the rest and try an easy lounge around toward a side door of the building, as though willing to be taken by the outer world for a couple of unimpeachable low-church ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 • Various

... moment the gray, piggish eyes of the Father, and the black, gleaming, mysterious orbs of his visitor were fixed upon each other. In the next moment Heller, bowing with a ceremonious air of respect, inquired, "What are your commands, ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various

... you get in such a place you have to just do like the rest and act piggish, too," said Alfaretta. "I guess I know now how 't one them panics that you read about, sometimes, could happen. If one them jammers went crazy, or scared, all the rest would ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond



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