swinish

  • 11swinish — 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 …

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  • 12swinish — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boorish, piggish, coarse; see beastly 1 , rude 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. piggish, *like a hog, beastly, filthy, gross, disgusting, brutish, gluttonous, coarse. ANT.: refined, cultured, delicate …

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  • 13swinish — swin|ish [ˈswaınıʃ] adj old fashioned BrE extremely unpleasant or difficult to deal with …

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  • 14swinish — swin·ish || swaɪnɪʃ adj. piggish, resembling swine; beastly, brutish, coarse, uncouth …

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  • 15swinish — a. Hoggish, piggish, gross, sensual, brutish, beastly …

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  • 16swinish — 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 …

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  • 17swinish — swin·ish …

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  • 18swinish — swin•ish [[t]ˈswaɪ nɪʃ[/t]] adj. like or befitting swine; hoggish • Etymology: 1150–1200 swin′ish•ly, adv. swin′ish•ness, n …

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  • 19swinish — /ˈswaɪnɪʃ/ (say swuynish) adjective like or befitting swine; brutishly gross or sensual. {Middle English; swin(e) + ish1} –swinishly, adverb –swinishness, noun …

  • 20swinish multitude — Rabble, great unwashed, mob, rabble rout, horde, scum of the people, dregs of society, canaille …

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