piggish
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A couple of would-be thieves in Kentucky have been arrested for their alleged piggish behavior.
From Fox News ● Nov. 19, 2019
It shows a girl with long golden hair, sneezing so explosively that the torrential discharge has turned her nose into a piggish snout.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
She barged in whenever she wanted, no matter who was speaking, and she icily backhanded Trump over his piggish remarks about her face.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2015
Some of my Slate colleagues, in their otherwise insightful weekly Mad Men commentaries, rolled their eyes at the corporate chieftains’ piggish treatment of Peggy and especially Joan, finding its villainy “cartoonish.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2015
I watched the baron’s piggish face chew open-mouthed on the sacrificial pig.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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