piggishly, he took two pieces of cake. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : piggish table manners. From Dictionary.com.
The square face was pleasantly sculptured, the dark eyes neither piggishly small nor bovinely large. From Wordnik.com. [Widows and Orphans] Reference
What puzzles me is how anyone, John McCain included, can ignore such piggishly Hell-earning, avaristic, selfish, behavior. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not] Reference
Our "embargo and isolate them" mentality only breeds more hatred of us and our big fat biggoted piggishly consumer dominated ways. From Wordnik.com. [McCain camp: Obama's not being honest on Cuba views] Reference
Clip shifted instantly to hawk-form, drop - ping Stile so suddenly to the floor that he stumbled face - first into the food trough as if piggishly hungry. From Wordnik.com. [Juxtaposition]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Efficient Drivers Cut Emissions, but Stir Up Hot Air] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Name] Reference
One day he killed five rabbits and Neewa ate four of them and grunted piggishly for more. From Wordnik.com. [Nomads of the North] Reference
You treat me piggishly, you write nothing to me, and I don't know what's going on, and how things are at home. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference
They talk piggishly about pigs; and sluggishly, I suppose, about slugs; and are refreshingly horsy about horses. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
It would involve deporting whack-jobs such as yourself from this country, because America has had enough of haters such as yourself who want to piggishly keep everything to yourself. From Wordnik.com. [BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS] Reference
She had kept on for fifteen years trying to find out the reality -- if there was any reality -- that hid behind appearances, piggishly obtuse to the interest of appearances themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference
He then transferred his imagination to a supper served at the wedding of a well-to-do farmer, where huge platters of sauerkraut, sausage, boiled pork and pickles had been provided, one to each of six tables, and he had helped himself piggishly, moving from one to the other so as not to reveal his gluttony. From Wordnik.com. [Seth's blog] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [TheZoo] Reference
Yes, your optic gleams piggishly bright. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference
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