lickerish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lickerish
Adjective
  • Employees are eager to experiment with AI tools, but unclear policies and a lack of training fuel secrecy instead of confidence.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Wrapped in a bulky down jacket, Putin greeted residents eager to meet him.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Proceeding With Task-Sharing Assume that mental health professionals desirous of doing task-sharing are fully aware of the various limitations and potential shortcomings.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Many enthusiasts gravitate toward the elemental 356 A, which is desirous in the same way a thin, non-automatic watch movement can be more satisfying than that found in a complicated chronograph.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • McKim, Mead & White quickly became the place for aspiring young architects, who avidly sought jobs there despite miserly salaries.
    Henry Wiencek July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • The miserly email account offerings are particularly limiting for larger ventures, and unusual for the category which typically offers unlimited email.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite the plot’s violence and death, this is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories from hoggish men whose power, both in the home and outside of it, is largely an illusion.
    Amy Rowland, New York Times, 12 May 2020
Adjective
  • British actress Rhea Norwood has been cast as Lydia Bennet, the chaotic and materialistic youngest Bennet daughter (and the favorite of Mrs. Bennet).
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a growing group of modern-day families choosing to leave the materialistic world behind and become homesteaders—off the land and completely self-sufficient.
    Megan Margulies, Outside Online, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Best shampoos for itchy scalp Shampoo is often seen as the first line of defense against dandruff.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Some common symptoms include the need to pee more frequently, feeling extremely thirsty, having dry and itchy skin, and getting dark, velvety patches on the skin.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rogen lands a few funny lines, but the jokes mostly serve to distract from the point of the story: that freedom is ephemeral and easily corrupted, while humans are inherently piggish (as opposed to the other way around), seizing the first opportunity to take more than their share.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • They are told to put money in piggy banks and not eat all their Halloween candy at once.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Mottola and Hamm, who thought the movie needed more time, decided to break open their piggy banks.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
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“Lickerish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lickerish. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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