About The Word Swinish
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Swinish
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What's The Definition Of Swinish?
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Swinish: boorish | gluttonous | hoggish | loutish | neandertal | neanderthal | oafish | piggish | piggy | porcine | unrefined Related Terms | Find terms related to Swinish: See Also | Swinish In Webster's Dictionary \Swin"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine;
hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
``Swinish gluttony.'' --Milton. -- {Swin"ish*ly}, adv. --
{Swin"ish*ness}, n.
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