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单词 hoggish
例句 hoggish
He was a valorous opportunist who pounced hoggishly upon every opportunity Colonel Korn discovered for him and trembled in damp despair immediately afterwards at the possible consequences he might suffer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Now she was almost over that abominable drop, and her body was farther and farther from reach, sleeping so hoggishly below her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
The ruling class became hoggishly self-indulgent: Mr Heffer lacerates Edward VII for his habit of sponging off his friends and debauching their wives. The decadent late-Victorian and Edwardian era 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z
How hoggish and self-indulgent the Yankees are, knowing a cheat might help them win a few more games and raise their television ratings. Box Seats: Punishments to Ponder 2013-08-10T17:24:18Z
The Master sent in another, with a hoggish grunt which spoke of the energy behind it. The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring 2011-12-31T03:00:19.660Z
Another thing of which I am ashamed is that since I can't eat everything, I tend to be rather protective or hoggish over those certain foods which seldom make me sick. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z
All seemed callous—hoggishly careless of the everlasting verities. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z
Lord! what a truly hoggish man he is; yet I cannot help envying him his oblivion to these surroundings. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z
How he gave the faithful priest other fish to fry, to cause him to forget his own hoggish life Chap. xxi.: The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim
"As for me, I think it is superstition which makes our governor more and more hoggish." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6
That is beastly; it’s worse than beastly,—hoggish, I may say!” A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day
“It certainly will be one hell of a crash when it comes, and Jimmy Langford hopes to be there with bells on at the funeral of Mayor Brenchfield and his hoggish ambitions.” The Spoilers of the Valley
All our industrious men were well behaved; and all our idle men were hoggish. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.
And you will cosset him in them—to save his hoggish dignity487 and buttress up his heavy pride. The Fifth Queen Crowned
I don't want to be hoggish with him. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine
But, to represent his character in its proper colours, he was always a hoggish little fellow, and disdained every other sort of labour but that of lifting his hand to his mouth. Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.
The young of the cowbird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
"I don't believe he is rich enough to be hoggish," added Bobtail, whose impressions of Colonel Montague were not altogether favorable. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.
Or a thwarting hoggish nature Joinèd in as bad a feature? The Book of Humorous Verse
It’s thirty parts hoggish self-sufficiency, and ten parts ignorance. The Gold Trail
I am not hoggish enough to want all the honors, and, if we play as much ball as we intend to next spring and summer, we'll need another pitcher. Frank Merriwell's Chums
I never saw her fairly drunk, however, but twice; upon which occasions, as was to be expected, she acted pretty much like a human being in the same hoggish predicament. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels
It is seldom that a man has nerve enough to stand such brutality from his hoggish assailants, and the ring of jobbers are too often left to work their will unchecked. Side Lights
With regard to "feeding and clothing" Darius set Hamlin down as "very hoggish;" he also stated that he would sell slaves whenever he could. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
After all, thought I, is the insidious, polished vice of France worse than the hoggish, uncouth practices of Scotland and of English country life? Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Nothing more refreshing in these days of hoggish communistic cant than this great voice asserting the divine, the eternal rights of the individual. Tragic Sense Of Life
How on earth could he go to bed, be hoggishly sleeping, while those chaps were marching out? If Winter Comes
"It may be learned manners to be late, but to my thinking it's hoggish." The Duel and Other Stories
In their hoggish way they feed well and lie warm—the phrase is their own favourite—and they subsist like odious reptiles, fed from mysterious sources. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
He did not come in until the small hours of the morning, and then he was in a state that I can only describe, with your permission, as hoggish. Castles in the Air
The stories of Savitri and of Damayanti, far from exemplifying Hindoo conjugal devotion, simply afford fresh proof of the hoggish selfishness of the male Hindoo. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
The glutton's a seat in which evil can work,   And in hoggish nature diseases will lurk:   By faith and good works we can all overcome,   And starve the old glutton until he is done. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
For those devils so talked of and feared are none else but hoggish jailors. Character Writings of the 17th Century
Was my labour to be counted as dross?—the humiliation, the blows which I had to endure while he sat in hoggish content, eating and sleeping without thought for the morrow? Castles in the Air
The Master sent in another with a hoggish grunt which spoke of the energy behind it. The Green Flag
The words had the effect of lending an additional clarity and firmness of outline to the picture of himself which Bill had already drawn in his mind—of a soulless creature sunk in hoggish slumber. Uneasy Money
"It isn't fair to keep it to yourself hoggishly, is it, fellows?" Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
Finding him without talent, the world has offered him no decently paid work except ignoble work, and he has become in consequence, somewhat hoggish. Candida
The young of the cow-bird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
"Now, don't be hoggish, Johnny," was her comment. When God Laughs: and other stories
Well, there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Among the other things in you that struck me were the blatant pomposity of your manner, your appalling flow of cheap platitudes, and your hoggish lack of ideas. And Even Now
It was the odor of hogs going up to the Ohio heavens—of hogs in a state of transit from hoggish nature to clothes-brushes, saddles, sausages, and lard. North America — Volume 2
Also, they are easier to interest—” “Because they are more hoggish,” the steward interrupted.  Michael, Brother of Jerry
No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or smoking, an uproarious materialism which to many women appears only hoggish. What's Wrong with the World
That decent man Is doom'd by me to lose his place again To-morrow morning when he wakes from out His hoggish slumber. Seven Men
No use being hoggish toward the rest of 'em, providing we can keep the bulge on 'em in membership. Babbitt
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