We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of swinish in English
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
Related terms
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.
Related terms
Usage of swinish in English
1
And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
2
I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
3
She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
4
Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
5
But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
6
But the pig-headed, selfish, swinish-well ,goon with your present plans.
7
The diminutive size of these pigs awakened reflections upon the brevity of swinish life.
8
From the top to the bottom, it's the swinish party.
9
To pursue pleasure, say the anti-utilitarians, is a swinish doctrine.
10
Yes, I am disgusted with myself, but only after my swinish desires are satisfied.
11
His little, swinish eyes fairly blazed in their sockets.
12
But here came the elves on their swinish mounts.
13
You must not imagine, however, that the swinish quality had entirely gone out of them.
14
A broken complexion, a swinish look, ungenerous acts and the want of due knowledge,-allblab.
15
They also grunt among themselves, without any external cause; but merely to express their swinish sympathy.
16
We are all now under what Burke called "the hoofs of the swinish multitude."
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Swinish through the time