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  • adverb In a piggish manner.

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  • adverb in a piggish manner

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Examples

  • The square face was pleasantly sculptured, the dark eyes neither piggishly small nor bovinely large.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • Our "embargo and isolate them" mentality only breeds more hatred of us and our big fat biggoted piggishly consumer dominated ways.

    McCain camp: Obama's not being honest on Cuba views 2008

  • There is a reason that we speak of people “hogging” everything for themselves, or eating “piggishly.”

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Swine Flu, Hog Farms, and Piggish Politics 2009

  • Nissan Motor Co. plans to start offering in the U.S. and Japan a feature that it calls the "eco-pedal" -- a sensor that, when the driver is accelerating too piggishly, pushes back against the driver's foot.

    Efficient Drivers Cut Emissions, but Stir Up Hot Air 2009

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Swine Flu, Hog Farms, and Piggish Politics'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'There is a reason that we speak of people “hogging” everything for themselves, or eating “piggishly.”

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Swine Flu, Hog Farms, and Piggish Politics 2009

  • What puzzles me is how anyone, John McCain included, can ignore such piggishly Hell-earning, avaristic, selfish, behavior.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not 2008

  • Hilmar: Ugh! Lona [opening the verandah door and window]: I should say, when he has washed himself, up at the hotel — for on the boat he got piggishly dirty.

    Pillars of Society 2008

  • Hilmar: Ugh! Lona [opening the verandah door and window]: I should say, when he has washed himself, up at the hotel — for on the boat he got piggishly dirty.

    Pillars of Society 2008

  • Distracted momentarily from her campaign revelries of maverick opposition to the "bridge to nowhere," which she had supported until it became a public relations debacle, and congressional earmarks for which she, as a small-town mayor, had hustled piggishly at the federal trough, Palin made the mistake of dealing with an unscripted subject.

    Robert Scheer: She's Clueless, He's Worse 2008

  • Now we are piggishly trying to charge them for restoration of infrastructure we destroyed — even while demanding they surrender 75% of their oil revenues to Big Oil for at least 30 years, denying Iraqis any chance at recovery.

    In Our Name 2007

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