: grossly selfish, gluttonous, or filthy
hoggishly
adverb
hoggishness
noun
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Examples of hoggish in a Sentence
was feeling hoggish after the hike and ate the whole bag of cookies
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Despite the plot’s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion.
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Amy Rowland, New York Times, 12 May 2020
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Amy Rowland, New York Times, 12 May 2020
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“Hoggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoggish. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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