Crossword-Solution: PIGGISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Piggish | a. | Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PIGGISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| like a pig, esp in appetite or manners | 1 answer |
| Like a glutton | 2 answers |
| devouring | 11 answers |
| balky | 23 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| Pig-headed | 60 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PIGGISH (5)
And what a fall was there! O, dear me, what a wicked, piggish donkey of a girl I have made of myself, to be sure! And there is no hope! O, Mr.—’ And at that she paused and asked my name.
Casa del Sonora, whither she went, was an old, two-story structure of the truly Spanish type, and it was kept by a huge, blubbery creature with piggish eyes and a bloated, purple countenance and the palsy.
Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock’s tail.
They are truly hideous beasts, with their gray, wrinkled, hairless hides, the huge ragged "flappers" which cover their ears, and with which they fan themselves ceaselessly, the small, mean eyes, the hideous proboscis which coils itself snakishly round everything; the formless legs, so like trunks of trees; the piggish back, with the steep slope down to the mean, bare tail, and the general unlikeness to all familiar and friendly beasts.
FIRST BOAR: Most innocent! PURGANAX: Behold this BAG; a bag-- SECOND BOAR: Oh! no GREEN BAGS!! Jealousy's eyes are green, Scorpions are green, and water-snakes, and efts, _75 And verdigris, and-- PURGANAX: Honourable Swine, In Piggish souls can prepossessions reign? Allow me to remind you, grass is green-- All flesh is grass;--no bacon but is flesh-- Ye are but bacon.
Quotes with PIGGISH (3)
ON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world...." "... In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;... We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even …
I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.'
We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2011).