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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance;
- Example: "was boorish and insensitive"
- Example: "the loutish manners of a bully"
- Example: "her stupid oafish husband"
- Example: "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
[syn: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]

2. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy;
- Example: "piggish table manners"
- Example: "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"
- Example: "swinish slavering over food"
[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]