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Recent Examples of piggish 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 Surrounded by a dysfunctional family and a piggish boss (Stellan Skarsgård), Justine is lonely, exasperated, and seething. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024 Also called the hog-nosed bat for its squashed, piggish nose, this bat hails from western Thailand and southeast Myanmar. Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023 Surrounded by a dysfunctional family and a piggish boss (Stellan Skarsgård), Justine is lonely, exasperated, and seething. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021 Her nemesis, piggish ex-husband and former club owner Rupert (Anthony Head), is out of the picture. Lorraine Ali Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021 His vocal presence keeps you attentive and improbably charmed, even when the leading men of his plays—the writer-actor often portrays them himself—are at their piggish and sociopathic worst. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021 In short, the tax break is symbolic of winner-takes-all capitalism at its most piggish, and helps explain the rising number of Americans who hold a positive view of socialism. Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
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Adjective
  • They weren’t built by the government, but rather by those evil greedy private corporations and individuals who are guilty of the heinous crime of providing millions of Americans with places to live.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 June 2025
  • The backdrop of the Marcos dictatorship shaped her artistic approach, defined by an interest in quotidian experience—including everyday injustices such as gender inequality and the ecological exploitation of the Philippines by greedy conglomerates.
    Hung Duong, Artforum, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Along the way, the administration recast the U.S. commitment to European security from a mutually beneficial partnership to a sucker’s game that enabled gluttonous free-riding at Americans’ expense.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
  • And there's history of the market going from existential panic to exhilarating audacity in a blink, such as when the 1998 near-bear market on hedge-fund blowups reversed to give way to the gluttonous risk binge of 1999.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 June 2025

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“Piggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggish. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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