lickerish

adjective

Definition of lickerishnext
as in eager

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lickerish
  1. eager
  2. desirous
  3. miserly
  4. hoggish
  5. materialistic
  6. itchy
  7. piggish
  8. piggy
Adjective
  • An international team of microbiologists, engineers, and physiologists was eager to understand how heat affects cilia, and whether this could explain different types of coral death.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The company’s meeting rooms, named after video game characters, are buzzing with employees eager to enjoy the air-conditioning—a rare luxury in Paris.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of eager
Adjective
  • Into this murky brew come companies that are desirous of using AI and finding a means to stir their employees towards becoming avid users of AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Dracula and his brides are not the only hungrily desirous characters on display.
    — Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of desirous
Adjective
  • The plot involves two sons of rich, miserly fathers in love with girls their fathers will never approve of and what happens when the fathers’ devious servants decide to give the boys a hand.
    — Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026
  • The already rich reap the most, though the thin spreading of payments means the payouts are relatively miserly for the game’s elite.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of miserly
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
Definition of hoggish
Adjective
  • New, fashionable clothing, it was implied, was materialistic and ungodly.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • 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
Definition of materialistic
Adjective
  • Even breeds that were supposed to be more hypoallergenic, like his family's goldendoodle, gave him itchy eyes and painful rashes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • That means that having a diagnosis of psoriasis — a condition which, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a chronic and incurable skin disease that causes a rash with itchy, scaly and sometimes painful patches — can be a difficult one to deal with.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of itchy
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of piggish
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
Definition of piggy
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