hoggish

How To Use hoggish In A Sentence

• Because they are more hoggish," the steward interrupted. CHAPTER XIII
• Fishlegs hangs on tight as a wart-hoggish Gronckle, a surprisingly likable grouch, flies through the air in How to Train Your Dragon. How to train yourself to spot a dragon
• Pansy's, far away in the garden, -- in a partly boggish, partly hoggish manner, drenched and desolate; and with something of demoniac temper got into its calyx, so that it quarrels with, and bites the corolla; -- something of gluttonous and greasy habit got into its leaves; a discomfortable sensuality, even in its desolation. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• I, who am a high clerk, and have studied in Spain, and Araby itself, not be able to deceive the eyes of this hoggish herd of citizens, when the pettiest juggler that ever dealt in legerdemain can gull even the sharp observation of your most intelligent knighthood? The Fair Maid of Perth
• Below, Fishlegs hangs on tight as a wart-hoggish Gronckle flies through the air. 'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes fire into the film genre
• Last year the country's then interior minister, Mareks Seglins, complained about "English pigs" and said they were a "dirty, hoggish people" after a British tourist was sentenced to five days in prison after being caught urinating on the war memorial. Boing Boing
• I didn't take any part in the siege operations myself, not because I was out of favour with Raglan, but for the excellent reason that like so many of the army I spent several weeks on the flat of my back with what was thought at first to be cholera, but was in fact a foul case of dysentery and wind, brought on by my own hoggish excesses. The Sky Writer
• Outside were brutal barons, vulgar merchants and hoggish peasants. Hidden Treasure
• Consider if the pig is a stand-in for someone who is greedy or "hoggish" -- and always consider if those negative traits might actually be shadow sides of your own psyche. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
• They also complain that Junie is often impolite, hoggish, and generally a poor role model -- again, like an enthusiastic but not very advanced kindergartner. “Young People Don’t Want to Read About Characters Their Age”