piggishness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piggishness
Noun
  • La Piscine’s dark summer romp through the dangers of lust, jealousy, and gluttony proves nothing is ultimately sexier than the privilege of indifference.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • Rules for the spectacle of gluttony and patriotism are simple: Contestants have 10 minutes to eat as many Nathan’s Famous hot dogs as humanly possible.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Movingly, this self-insistence can be read as a type of amateur cultural materialism: here, for the record, are the smallest specificities of a working-class English childhood in the sixties and seventies.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • Lucy’s materialism is what drove the two apart before.
    Myisha Battle, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the Mangold film’s antagonists, folklorist and Newport overseer Alan Lomax, is seen and heard debating the idea of purity vs. commercialism in folk music.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
  • But from the beginning, Chiuri was the target of critics who skimmed over the political messages of her shows and dismissed her efforts to create wearable wardrobe options for women as bland commercialism.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • With this new creation, Liu turns our gaze back to earth, exploring the existential solitude and quiet observation of these aging machines as metaphors for diasporic longing, technological obsolescence and the search for connection and purpose.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • The characters become avatars for our own longing, heartbreak, hopefulness and grief ...
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • The sport of off-roading suffers from a fundamental discordance: The desire to get out into nature and the irreparable harm inherent in the process of off-roading.
    Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
  • Zuckerberg’s drive to get ahead on AI may be rooted in part in his desire to own a foundational platform for the next major technology wave.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
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“Piggishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggishness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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