[
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
- The man stared at James with deep-set, piggish eyes but James continued to walk towards him, unperturbed.
- If it had been anybody else, Tommy would certainly have called this 'piggish'; as it was, he tried to think it was all fun, and that he himself had no particular appetite. The Talking Horse And Other Tales
- He looked up at Ash with piggish eyes, demanding to know the nature of his visit.
- piggish table manners
- Julian sounded like "zhu nian", hence he was sometimes called piggish face. Jaimewolf Diary Entry
- And - and I'll do my best not to be so piggish about anyone again. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
- It's the same kind of piggish, clueless vindictiveness of a passenger on a storm-tossed boat in the middle of an angry sea - who hates the captain so much he hopes he's too incompetent to keep the boat from sinking. Mario Almonte: Can Hope Float the Economy - and Sink the Republicans?
- They are addicted to preserving their own piggish way of life.
- The man stared at James with deep-set, piggish eyes but James continued to walk towards him, unperturbed.
- If you weren't feeling piggish after we hit an all-time high on the Nasdaq in 2000, you needed a shrink, pronto .