Swinish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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