piggishness

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Noun
  • At a deeper level, this is a gluttony issue.
    Maggie Anders, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
  • There are some outlier lines that hint at abundance or gluttony—your lines of coke or of conga—but lines generally broadcast supply problems: breadlines, Cuban bodega lines, embargo-era gas lines.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This is a guy who could write these incredibly bigoted figures, and then also write this really searing indictment of American materialism.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The book is a Christian parable, pitting faith against 20th-century materialism.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As print and television media fumbled their way online, Gawker used the internet to pull back the curtain on celebrity, mainstream media, politics and creeping commercialism.
    Frank DiGiacomo, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
  • This rampant commercialism has taken over our sentimental holidays.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s arguably no one better placed to collaborate with VFX artists on a motion-capture performance than Serkis, who’s delivered innocence, cunning, cruelty, longing, and kindness in roles that run from Golum to Caesar to King Kong himself.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
  • Coming from a working-class family of Mexican immigrants and having worked many years in services jobs around the South Bay, the 36-year-old wanted his art to reflect that longing for a fair treatment of workers, especially immigrants.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Our desire to see each other can remain the same but the means of doing so have to be flexible.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2026
  • Public interest in this crowdfunding effort shows a collective desire to disrupt the airline industry.
    Dalila Muata, NBC news, 9 May 2026
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“Piggishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggishness. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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