Definition of swinish Swinish
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| 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" | ||
| 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, neandertal, oafish | ||
| unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" | ||
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- swinish (Adjective)
Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- swinish (a.)
Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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swinish
swī′nish, adj. like or befitting swine: gross: brutal.—adv. Swin′ishly.—n. Swin′ishness
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