Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hoggish, brutish, gluttonous, or filthy manner.
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- adverb In a
hoggish manner.
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Examples
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Down below it was worse; sometimes "hoggishly mild," as Beck used to put it.
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I despised anyone who was not describable as a ‘gentleman’, but also I hated the hoggishly rich, especially those who had grown rich too recently.
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Well, there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English.
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Down below it was worse; sometimes “hoggishly mild,” as Beck used to put it.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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I despised anyone who was not describable as a "gentleman," but also I hated the hoggishly rich ....
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"It isn't fair to keep it to yourself hoggishly, is it, fellows?"
Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums Mark Overton
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Some of them are in trouble now, and nearly all are faced with trouble as bad or worse if the forces of change are allowed to move as blindly and hoggishly forward as they have been moving during the decades behind us, ever faster and on ever wider fronts.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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But letting a man spend his wages hoggishly on himself and robbing his children and driving them from their lawful home and cheating you out of every right and even your self-respect is nothing to be patient about.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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I despised anyone who was not describable as a gentleman, but also I hated the hoggishly rich, especially those who had grown rich too recently.
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How on earth could he go to bed, be hoggishly sleeping, while those chaps were marching out?
If Winter Comes 1925
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