swinish
AmericanOther Word Forms
- swinishly adverb
- swinishness noun
Etymology
Origin of swinish
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
After this infusion of verisimilitude, Arlette appears with some neighbors, including the swinish butcher, and bravely takes over the detective work.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time.
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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