as in greedy
having a huge appetite
a piggish dog who ate anything left within reach
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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.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggish
Adjective
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To be clear, most of the blame for this climate crisis goes to the greedy fossil fuel executives and big agriculture executives, their greenwashing PR firms, and the politicians in their pockets.—
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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But Septime Webre’s choreography is supposed to have the air of wild and sometimes frenzied social dancing, of Charlestons and Fox Trots and Black Bottoms, of indulging the glorious excesses of the 1920s before the greedier side of the American Dream comes crashing down a few years later.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Oct. 2025
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Other Redditors wondered if there was any truth to the restaurant staff's comments, and suggested that some guests may have actually been gluttonous.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps this is to shame one into avoiding gluttonous behavior.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Piggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggish. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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