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English adjective: swinish | |||
| 1. | swinish ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Similar | unrefined | ||
| Antonyms | refined | ||
| 2. | swinish resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | ||
| Samples | Piggish table manners. The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father. Swinish slavering over food. | ||
| Synonyms | hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine | ||
| Similar | gluttonous | ||
| Antonyms | abstemious | ||
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