swinish

swin·ish (sw

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adj.

1. Resembling or befitting swine.

2. Bestial or brutish.

swinish·ly adv.

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Adj.	1.	swinish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, neandertal unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
	2.	swinish - resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

Translations

swinish [ˈswaɪnɪʃ] ADJ (fig) → cochino, canallesco

swinish

adj (fig) → gemein

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I abandoned myself to the life, and developed the misconception that the secret of John Barleycorn lay in going on mad drunks, rising through the successive stages that only an iron constitution could endure to final stupefaction and swinish unconsciousness.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

They tried to groan and beg for mercy, but forthwith emitted the most awful grunting and squealing that ever came out of swinish throats.

Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

Each of these creatures, despite its human form, its rag of clothing, and the rough humanity of its bodily form, had woven into it--into its movements, into the expression of its countenance, into its whole presence--some now irresistible suggestion of a hog, a swinish taint, the unmistakable mark of the beast.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context

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