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swinishness

  • a word derived from swine.
    swine
    noun
    any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products.
  • a word derived from swinish.
    swinish
    adjective
    like or befitting swine; hoggish.

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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

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

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

Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Commit some act of genuine swinishness, so that you may put a little ginger into your life.”

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield