lickerish

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Adjective
  • The evil-doing in question is simple enough, at least for a franchise that has always been built around the existence of a clandestine organization of magicians (The Eye) who love using their skills to take down bad guys and quite literally share the wealth with their eager audiences.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Ghana has been one of the first countries to make major Article 6 sales, and some other African nations are eager to follow, Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s special climate envoy, told Semafor.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Japan’s Production Committee Model Emerges as Co-Production Barrier Separately, Japanese producers are very excited to and desirous of, coproducing with international partners, but language and culture still remain massive obstacles.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Proceeding With Task-Sharing Assume that mental health professionals desirous of doing task-sharing are fully aware of the various limitations and potential shortcomings.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • While there have been many fine adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Alastair Sim's performance as the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge elevates this version to must-see status.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Depp will play the titular role of Ebenezer Scrooge, a misanthropic and miserly businessman in 19th century London who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in an effort to save himself from an afterlife of torment.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The film is written to the anxious and, yes, materialistic beats of the here and now.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Long gone are the itchy, ill-fitting-but-necessary sweaters of fall and winter.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Your scalp may feel itchy and irritated as the skin flakes off due to dandruff.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 14 Nov. 2025.

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