a piggish demand for more money
He has a piggish attitude toward women.
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1742
devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping;
insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable;
empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving;
: greedy, offensive, or unpleasant
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