swinish
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈswaɪnɪʃ/
Adjective

swinish

  1. Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
      {...}}They clepe#English|clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / soil#English|Soyle our addition#English|addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height#English|height / The pith and marrow of our attribute{{...}
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27:
      Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.



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