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taking too much for yourself and onlythinkingabout yourself (形容人)自私;下流;贪婪Synonymspiggyinformaldisapproving swinishold-fashioned SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSelfishness - egocentric
- egocentrically
- egocentricity
- egoism
- egoistic
- egotistically
- inconsiderate
- inconsiderately
- inconsiderateness
- killer instinct
- self
- self-absorbed
- self-absorption
- self-centred
- self-interest
- selfish
- selfishly
- selfishness
- selves
- vanity
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: (Definition ofhoggishfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofhoggishhoggish I don't want to behoggishwith him.FromProject Gutenberg The young of the cowbird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might sayhoggish.FromProject Gutenberg But it will require only the slighest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to thehoggishdisposition.FromProject Gutenberg It's thirty partshoggishself-sufficiency, and ten parts ignorance.FromProject Gutenberg But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to thehoggishdisposition.FromProject Gutenberg Were all who fish in them skillful andhoggish, in a little while there would be no fishing except in "far-away" places, difficult to reach.FromProject Gutenberg One observes a constant oscillation between a pharisaical piety and ahoggishcarnality.FromProject Gutenberg It had a black,hoggishnose, but there were fangs in its great jaws.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/hoggish## |