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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty;

as, a

swinish

drunkard or sot

“Swinish gluttony.”

Milton.

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Swin′ish-ly

adv.

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Swin′ish-ness

Noun.

Adj.

[from swine.] Befitting swine; like swine; gross; hoggish; brutal; as a swinish drunkard or sot; swinish gluttony.

swinish ‎(comparative more swinish, superlative most swinish)

Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
- 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.