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Recent Examples of pigsty De Wet claims Olivier then ordered him to dispose of their bodies in a pigsty — an act prosecutors believe was meant to destroy evidence. Christina Coulter, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025 Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025 And the ungrateful pig got a solid slap from the pigsty owners. Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025 The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty. Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025 Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty. Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024 James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024 The authorities raided his hospital, killed one of his co-workers, and threw the battered body of another into a pigsty for the hogs to devour. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties. Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigsty
Noun
  • With Njoku possibly missing time, Harold Fannin (who has received the most targets this season with 14) could benefit greatly and is an easy dump-off for Gabriel.
    Jess Bryant, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Our new favorite dump cake tastes like a cross between a gooey pecan pie and a buttery, cakey cobbler.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But most important, its vacuum design is quiet, easy to use, and eliminates mess.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • La Liz was an opulent mess her whole life.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?
    Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Police came back the next day and found the boy's remains in the family's pigpen.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • For patients with eyelid infections, this buildup is a common cause of dryness, itchiness, eyelash loss and even recurrent sties.
    Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
  • Vance's office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one dedicated to learning about Greenlandic culture with stops at historical sties and its national dogsled race.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If the goal is a lineup with as few holes as possible, the Hurricanes do so more emphatically than any other team in the league.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The wire makes digging up the bulbs more difficult, but allows the foliage to easily grow through the wire holes.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Far from being the hellholes that Trump and his minions constantly depict, cities such as New York and Boston and Seattle are already desirable places to live—witness their housing pressures.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Who wants to work to separate family members from each other or put people in a hellhole in the Everglades?
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Pigsty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigsty. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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