swinish

swinish
adj
1. hoggish, piggish, porcine, Jocular. porky.
2. gross, coarse, churlish, beastly, animalistic, animal, brute; raffish, low, smutty, base, broad; licentious, lascivious, lewd, lecherous.
3. sensual, voluptuous, pleasure-seeking, self-seeking, hedonist; sybaritic, luxurious, epicurean; carnal, fleshly, physical, earthy.
4. slobby, slovenly, slatternly, unclean, filthy, dirty; sluttish, slatternly, blowzy, frowzy; unkempt, untidy, Inf. messy, mussy, Inf. sloppy, shabby, scraggly; scruffy, Sl. grungy, grubby, unwashed, slimy.
5. voracious, ravenous, rapacious, edacious, gluttonous; crapulous, omnivorous, insatiable, glutting, gorging, overfed.

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  • Swinish — 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • swinish — c.1200, from SWINE (Cf. swine) + ISH (Cf. ish) …   Etymology dictionary

  • swinish — [swīn′ish] adj. [ME swinisch] of, like, fit for, or characteristic of swine; beastly, piggish, coarse, etc. swinishly adv. swinishness n …   English World dictionary

  • swinish — adjective BrE extremely unpleasant or difficult to deal with: a swinish problem | swinish behaviour …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • swinish — adjective 1. 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 • Syn: ↑boorish, ↑loutish, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • swinish — swin|ish [ swaınıʃ ] adjective MAINLY JOURNALISM extremely unpleasant or annoying: swinish behavior …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • swinish — swine ► NOUN 1) (pl. same) formal or N. Amer. a pig. 2) (pl. same or swines) informal a contemptible or disgusting person. DERIVATIVES swinish adjective. ORIGIN Old English, related to SOW(Cf. ↑sower) …   English terms dictionary

  • swinish — adjective Date: 13th century of, suggesting, or characteristic of swine ; beastly • swinishly adverb • swinishness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • swinish — swinishly, adv. swinishness, n. /swuy nish/, adj. 1. like or befitting swine; hoggish. 2. brutishly coarse, gross, or sensual. [1150 1200; ME; see SWINE, ISH1] * * * …   Universalium

  • swinish — adjective Like a pig, resembling a swine …   Wiktionary

  • swinish — Synonyms and related words: Adamic, Apician, Circean, a hog for, acquisitive, all devouring, animal, animalistic, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bibulous, bodily, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, brutal, brute, brutish …   Moby Thesaurus

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