swinish
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Etymology
Origin of swinish
Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200; see origin at swine, -ish 1
Example Sentences
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In any case, to the men deceived by the bed trick, whether swinish Bertram or the psychopathic puritan Angelo in Measure for Measure, the woman each desires is a conquest only.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2016
In his early flowering in the mid-’70s, Cronenberg created and directed nightmare scenarios of ordinary people getting infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2012
One gifted young actress, Suzanne Bertish, plays three women spurned in love: Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gluttony with a face half furtive, half swinish, gnaws a ham bone, one arm circling a paunchy bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty— bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all swinish now, though minds were still unchanged.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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