piggishness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggishness
Noun
  • This gluttony was deadly, writes classical philologist Ioannis M. Konstantakos: Philoxenus caused his own death by devouring a gigantic octopus.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Speaking of prizes, diners who finish a whole Slinger get honored with a certificate on the wall immortalizing their gluttony forever.
    Monica Eng, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Catholicism offers ritual without the tedium of rationality; anarchism offers revolutionary action against inequality without the taint of materialism, the prospect of personal gain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These factions would seem to be holiday rivals of a sort, like people who can’t get enough of all Christmas and the camp bemoaning its commercialism.
    Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This is an age of television contracts and commercialism and Musiala, less an outstanding player more a uniquely special one, is invaluable within that context.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The album thrives on tension—between glitz and grime, between cool detachment and desperate longing.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Mister Romantic may be an equal-opportunity flirt, but there’s no carnal undercurrent to his desires.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The fact that the session is filmed for consumption by the very public Alec claims to want to avoid does seem at cross-purposes with his expressed desire.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Piggishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggishness. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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