[syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
swinish
adj 1: 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, swinish]
2: 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, swinish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "swinish":
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, caprid, caprine, carnal, carnal-minded,
coarse, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent,
crapulous, deerlike, devouring, earthy, edacious, equestrian,
equine, esurient, excessive, extravagant, extreme, fallen, feral,
ferine, fleshly, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish,
goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gross,
gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy,
hyperphagic, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inordinate,
insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, lapsed, limitless, material,
materialistic, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, mulish,
nonspiritual, omnivorous, orgiastic, overgreedy, overindulgent,
overindulging, ovine, physical, piggish, polyphagic, postlapsarian,
prodigal, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant,
self-indulgent, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing,
too much, unappeasable, unappeased, unbridled, unconstrained,
uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, ungulate, unlimited,
unmeasured, unquenchable, unrestrained, unsated, unsatisfied,
unslakeable, unslaked, unspiritual, unthrifty, venal, voracious,
wolfing