lickerish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lickerish
Adjective
  • The 23-year-old Shou, a lifelong Fremont resident, won out over hundreds of others eager to play 17-year-old Joe, a troubled San Gabriel Valley area high school student with schizophrenia whose distraught mom Irene (Liu, in a transformative performance) is dying of cancer.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Hosted by Variety’s Angelique Jackson and Marc Malkin, the pre-show will deliver exclusive access, must-see interviews and real-time coverage from the first spot on the carpet, serving as the ultimate destination for fans eager to experience the night unfold.
    William Earl, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
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
  • 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
  • In this version, miserly Madame Eleanor is visited by the ghost former business partner Jacob Marley as well as a few other apparitions.
    Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 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
  • Heather is accused of hiding behind her humor, Lisa of hiding behind materialistic things, and Angie of hiding behind her sharp tongue, for example.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Far too many became trapped in a materialistic outlook where success was based on acquiring wealth.
    Jane Goodall, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Allergies are typically marked by itchy, watery eyes, scratchy throat, sneezing, running nose and a cough.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This causes symptoms such as swelling, redness, and itchy skin.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 4 Jan. 2026
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 11 Jan. 2026.

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