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Both the 1976 strain and the new H1N1 strain are closely related to viruses carried by pigs, making some wonder whether that "swinishness" makes their vaccines more likely to cause unusual effects.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2009

It has always been noted in extenuation that literary satire thrives on vile bodies and that swinishness justifies a measure of pique.

From Time Magazine Archive

RAY by Barry Hannah Knopf; 113 pages; $7.95 The hero of this deft assemblage is a doctor who practices in Tuscaloosa, Ala. What he practices, chiefly, is high-spirited swinishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But since his appearance in 1954, critics and readers have remarked the spreading "swinishness" of Kingsley Amis characters�as well as the distaste the author seems to feel for his own creations.

From Time Magazine Archive

For my own part I prefer the freedom even with the "swinishness" of a caravanserai to receiving hospitality for which no fitting return can be made.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)