lickerish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lickerish
Adjective
  • Columbus has the most cap room in the league and is eager to add this summer.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • The ballpark help seemed eager to please, and restrictions on seating and other areas were loose to unenforced.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Democrats’ new embrace of immigration radicalism is being led by none other than Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who initially seemed desirous of presiding over a pivot back to the center.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
  • That idea that being ingenious isn’t a necessary requirement gives tremendous hope to a lot of those AI developers who are desirous of being the one solo coder to discover or invent AGI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Athletics, despite their miserly ways, have a strong foundation of young players — Silver Slugger Brent Rooker, Lawrence Butler, Jacob Wilson, JJ Bleday, Shea Langeliers, Zack Gelof, and this year’s #4 pick in the draft, Nick Kurtz.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But the approval process has been slow, the discounts vary from carrier to carrier, the requirements coming from insurers don’t always match the state’s own standards and the savings on offer are, according to some, miserly.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Shifts from an agrarian community culture to materialistic urban industry left their mark.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2025
  • From a purely materialistic point of view, becoming a parent means transitioning into an existence crammed with a mind-boggling amount of stuff—stuff to acquire, assemble and incorporate into your (increasingly hectic) daily routine.
    Darryn King, Forbes.com, 6 May 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
  • Compared to a large public pension fund (like many teachers’ retirement funds or police and firefighter funds), Social Security is like Fort Knox and these public funds are just big piggy banks.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022
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“Lickerish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lickerish. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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