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piggish
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
Example Sentences
The attempts to discredit Dr. Bernard's story quickly got elevated to Fox News, where piggish host Jesse Watters especially went nuts over it.
But we can’t be here for beauty — that would be gauche, not to mention piggish.
“Right now, it would be overwhelmingly piggish. But by the end of August, we should have in place antigen testings... You could test millions of people,” he said.
Sex between the two isn’t just animalistic — one rejected title for McKay’s novel had been “Savage Loving” — but “piggish.”
You don’t want someone who will be piggish once they get inside.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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