swinish
/'swainiʃ/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Resembling or characteristic of swine; pig-like: Describes something or someone that has the coarse, greedy, or filthy qualities associated with pigs.
- Coarsely gluttonous or greedy: Refers to an excessive, vulgar, or selfish desire for food, money, or pleasure.
- Ill-mannered, coarse, and contemptible in behavior or appearance: Describes behavior that is brutish, uncivilized, and offensive.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- His swinish table manners, with loud chewing and grabbing food, disgusted the other guests.
- The dictator's swinish greed for wealth left the country impoverished.
- The critic dismissed the popular art as mere entertainment for the swinish multitude.
Advanced Usage
- Used in a figurative or literary sense to express extreme moral condemnation, often regarding behavior considered grossly selfish or uncultured.
- The corporation's swinish disregard for environmental regulations sparked public outrage.
Variants and Related Words
- Swine (n): A pig; also used as a contemptuous term for a person.
- Piggish (adj): Very similar in meaning to 'swinish', emphasizing greed or dirtiness.
- Porcine (adj): Relating to or resembling pigs, often in a more neutral, biological sense (e.g., porcine features).
Synonyms
- Piggish: Greedy, gluttonous.
- Boorish: Rude, ill-mannered.
- Oafish: Clumsy, stupid, and uncultured.
- Gluttonous: Excessively greedy for food.
- Coarse: Lacking refinement; vulgar.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- Swinish multitude: A derogatory phrase, historically used to express aristocratic or intellectual contempt for the common masses, viewed as coarse and driven by base appetites.
- The elitist philosopher spoke of the need to educate the swinish multitude.
Adjective
- 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
- 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