Crossword clues for swinish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swinish \Swin"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine;
hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
``Swinish gluttony.''
--Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. --
Swin"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, originally of persons or behavior, "like a swine; gluttonous, sensual, degraded, beastly," from swine + -ish. Related: Swinishly; swinishness. Similar formation in German schweinisch. Old English had swinlic in same sense.
Wiktionary
a. Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish]
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" [syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine]
Usage examples of "swinish".
Chief White Halfoat to move in with him, too, and drive the fastidious, clean-living bastards out with his threats and swinish habits.
SWELLFOOT, without its having been conceived necessary to determine whether a swelling of the hind or the fore feet of the Swinish Monarch is particularly indicated.
But during calms the flies of idle aim Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.
Ponder your proud destinies: Born were ye not like brutes for swinish ease, But virtue and high knowledge to pursue.
What, I, I, who have shamed kings in luxury,--I to die on the gibbet, among the reeking, gaping, swinish crowd with whom--O God, that I were one of them even!
Which, thus a swinish thing to flout, Though haply in its gross way good, Hangs such a jewel in its snout.
Than lead the wretched revelry Where fools at swinish troughs carouse.
Netherlands that our men are falling into a swinish trick of swilling like the Hollanders.
And now, that darkfaced, swinish bully who had ruined the girl he had grown to love--he had done it!
In his tremor of rage and excitement his arms felt curiously weak, and his first thought was how impossible it would be to strangle that swinish neck.
Arlingford Castle, than deterred by his awe of the lady Matilda, which nevertheless was so excessive, from his recollection of the twang of the bow-string, that he never ventured to find her in the wrong, much less to enjoin any thing in the shape of penance, as was the occasional practice of holy confessors, with or without cause, for the sake of pious discipline, and what was in those days called social order, namely, the preservation of the privileges of the few who happened to have any, at the expense of the swinish multitude who happened to have none, except that of working and being shot at for the benefit of their betters, which is obviously not the meaning of social order in our more enlightened times: let us therefore be grateful to Providence, and sing Te Deum laudamus in chorus with the Holy Alliance.
He holds his dominion over the forest, and its horned multitude of citizen-deer, and its swinish multitude or peasantry of wild boars, by right of conquest and force of arms.
How gladly, at those moments, he would have welcomed centuries of a material hell, to escape from the more awful spiritual hell within him,--to buy back that pearl of innocence which he had cast recklessly to be trampled under the feet of his own swinish passions!
Throughout his training he had thought of Floss as a swinish bully, a man who had cruelly injured one of his own men, a messdeck thug who needed to be forcibly and physically beaten down.
But during calms the flies of idle aim Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.