piggy

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Recent Examples of piggy Just as Henry VIII was immortalized (huge, menacing, thick-necked, pasty-faced and piggy-eyed) by his court painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, might this prove to be a defining image of Elizabeth II half a millennium hence? Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for piggy
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Adjective
  • The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Surrounded by a dysfunctional family and a piggish boss (Stellan Skarsgård), Justine is lonely, exasperated, and seething.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • To devour one in a single bite would be gluttonous.
    Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Another venerable Caribbean Carnival tradition is the breakfast party, which on paper sounds like bona-fide madness: wake up in the middle of the night, go to a nice venue, drink and dance until the sun rises, eat a gluttonous drunken breakfast, then return home to get back in bed and knock out.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The family drama comedy follows a Gen Z content creator who returns to her ancestral home for viral content, only to encounter her deceased brother’s ghost and deal with greedy relatives.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Along that greedy path, he has been sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission three separate times.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His insatiable appetite for worlds comes out of an elemental necessity to ingest fertile planets for sustenance and to maintain balance in the cosmos, forever on the prowl in his world ship, the Taa II.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Three years after their auspicious debut, the young Chicago rock trio’s new album features this insatiable lead single — a quick, crunchy guitar track that’s been putting me in a trance for months.
    Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025

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“Piggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggy. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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