swinish

Speech parts

1. swinish - Adjective

2. swinish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

neanderthal porcine piggy boorish oafish loutish piggish neandertal hoggish buckeye gross brutal dirty coarse avid
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Antonyms

beneficent humane content clean elevated cultivated
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Phrases with the word

swinish multitude

Examples

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Edmund Burke

Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - "Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!" Lewis Carroll

It is better to know - even if the knowledge endured only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. Isaac Asimov

Our lord bishops...that swinish rabble, are petty antichrists, petty popes, proud prelates, intolerable withstanders of reformation, enemies of the gospel, and most covetous wretched priests. Martin Marprelate

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. Lord Byron

was boorish and insensitive Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Swinhoe's softshell turtle Swinhoe's storm petrel swinholide swinish multitude swinishly swinishness