What is "swinish" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does swinish mean in English? Meaning of swinish definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "swinish" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "swinish": ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance

Adjective

  • Meaning: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  • Example: was boorish and insensitive the loutish manners of a bully her stupid oafish husband aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
  • Synonyms: boorish loutish neandertal neanderthal oafish swinish
  • Similar: unrefined
  • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈswʌɪnɪʃ/

    Meaning of "swinish": resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

    Adjective

  • Meaning: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  • Example: piggish table manners the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father swinish slavering over food
  • Synonyms: hoggish piggish piggy porcine swinish
  • Similar: gluttonous
  • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈswʌɪnɪʃ/

  • Adjective: Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27: Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27: Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.
  • Synonyms:

    abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, unclean, vile, piggish, brutish, ferine, rude, tasteless, vulgar, churlish, impolite, ugly, barbaric, uncivilized, coarse, cantankerous, clumsy, countrified, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, unpoised, savage, inhuman, rude, animal, beastly, bestial, brute, carnal, coarse, feral, unfeeling, inhumane, bearish, brutish, ferine, animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, unthinking, ferine, worthless, vile, disgusting, odious, abhorrent, hateful, abominable, abject, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, degenerate, detestable, dirty, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, lowest, mean, outcast, paltry, pitiful, poor, sad, shabby, sordid, sorry, unworthy, wretched, pitiable, currish, despisable, low-down, scummy, scurvy, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, grabby, piggish, ensurient, grudging, hogging, prehensile, rapacious, selfish, hungry, impatient, eager, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, gluttonous, grasping, insatiable, intemperate, itchy, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, ravenous, stingy, tight, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, grabby, hoggish, piggish, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grudging, gulping, guzzling, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, prehensile, ravening, tight-fisted, barnyard, offensive, ribald, callous, foul, raw, rank, rough, dull, low, boorish, breezy, carnal, cheap, coarse, corporeal, crass, fleshly, ignorant, improper, impure, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, lewd, loudmouthed, low-minded, lustful, obscene, raunchy, rude, scatological, sensual, sexual, sleazy, smutty, tasteless, ugly, uncouth, uncultured, unfeeling, unrefined, unseemly, unsophisticated, voluptuous, in the gutter, undiscriminating, barbaric, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, dense, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, doltish, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight, voracious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grudging, gulping, guzzling, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, prehensile, ravening, tight-fisted,

    Antonyms:

    good, kind, nice, superior, inoffensive, kind, mannerly, polite, pleasant, charming, cultured, exciting, nice, polished, refined, sophisticated, smooth, gentle, delicate, kind, humane, nice, generous, gentle, gentle, mild, weak, kind, pleasant, pleasing, delightful, lovable, admirable, honorable, loved, worthy, nice, likeable, admired, good, respectable, benevolent, generous, giving, abstemious, benevolent, extravagant, philanthropic, charitable, generous, liberal, kind, pleasing, moral, honest, healthy, skinny, slender, net, polite, hidden, obscured, vague, nice, clean, decent, sensitive, good, sophisticated, thin, part, partial, modified,

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