hoggish

Example Sentences

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How hoggish and self-indulgent the Yankees are, knowing a cheat might help them win a few more games and raise their television ratings.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2013

Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury�with the sting left out�such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia.

From Time Magazine Archive

In my opinion this letter should have been next to an article on Blue Boy, for a more hoggish, boorish display of feeling it has never been my misfortune to read.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stop on the A82's muddy shoulder and discover I'm more angry at myself than at the hoggish trucker.

From Time Magazine Archive

For those devils so talked of and feared are none else but hoggish jailors.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various