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Adjective
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For example, Stanford’s Eesley said that plenty of AI business customers are eager to try out new tools, but drop them after a trial period.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026 -
Why are men like Sam Bateman or Warren Jeffs eager to document so much of their criminal activity?—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Dracula and his brides are not the only hungrily desirous characters on display.—
Demetrios Matheou,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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For the hopeful, who seek indulgences from Trump like Renaissance crooks to their pope—desirous of either pardons that entirely forgive, or commutations that shorten prison time and erase fines—Trump’s willingness to reimagine the pardon and commutation processes has fueled a cottage industry.—
Willem Marx,
Vanity Fair,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The latest Wilderness model will sport the most miserly powertrain of all the vehicles in that sub-brand, Subaru says.—
Marty Padgett,
The Drive,
1 Apr. 2026
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Como had been neck-and-neck with Roma’s miserly backline before shipping four at Inter last Saturday, a chastening defeat that ended an unbeaten run stretching back to the end of August.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Despite the plot’s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion.—
Amy Rowland,
New York Times,
12 May 2020
Adjective
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This sparks all kinds of adverse reaction, mainly from McCarthy’s snotty pals and girlfriends, a tribe so fiercely materialistic and shallow as to make current Less Than Zero-types seem well rounded by comparison.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2026
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The pursuit of happiness, both materialistic and spiritual, is a recurring theme in my feature films.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
19 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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As a reporter working on a computer more than eight hours most days, my eyes often feel fatigued and itchy by evening.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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The costume was itchy and uncomfortable.—
Beverly Gage,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.—
Michael Deeds
January 1,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Jan. 2026
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Rogen lands a few funny lines, but the jokes mostly serve to distract from the point of the story: that freedom is ephemeral and easily corrupted, while humans are inherently piggish (as opposed to the other way around), seizing the first opportunity to take more than their share.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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They are told to put money in piggy banks and not eat all their Halloween candy at once.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
6 Feb. 2023
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Mottola and Hamm, who thought the movie needed more time, decided to break open their piggy banks.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Sep. 2022
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“Lickerish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lickerish. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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