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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for Swinish:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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