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• s  resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  piggish table manners

• There were 23 piggish pugs but no bloodhounds.
• Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharksleathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey.
• Yet Levine is best known for his editorializing pictures, such as Welcome Home (a piggish general at a banquet), which was included in the American painting exhibition in Moscow .

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News & Articles

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• Long Clearwire Soap Opera Still Awaits Final Act
  Watching the various parties involved in the bidding now for Clearwire, rest assured that finally there is a clear focus on the value of the assets that a huge swath of U.S. 2.5 Ghz spectrum represents. Last year when I was first writing about this, not a soul was paying any attention. Had Sprint and Softbank not been so piggish in trying to steal value from the Clearwire shareholders, they ...
  June 21, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Ophir Pines-Paz in San Diego Union Tribune
  Labor lawmaker Ofir Pines-Paz told Israel Army Radio that "we will not sit in a government in which piggish capitalism is running rampant."
• Steve Levy in Newsday
  Levy added later: "This is just a terrible example of how piggish" some benefit funds can be.
• Yossi Beilin in Ynetnews
  The joining of forces between Kadima, Labor and the Pensioners brought about a piggish capitalism of the year 2008 which easily outdoes the capitalism of the Netanyahu years,Beilin said referring to former Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.