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

One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets.

From Time Magazine Archive

How he gave the faithful priest other fish to fry, to cause him to forget his own hoggish life Chap. xxi.:

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von