Synonyms for swinish
Grammar : Adj, adv |
Spell : swahy-nish |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈswaɪ nɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for swinish Other synonyms for the word swinish
- abject
- acquisitive
- animal
- avaricious
- avid
- bad
- bad-mannered
- barbaric
- barbarous
- barnyard
- base
- bearish
- beastly
- beggarly
- bestial
- bodily
- boorish
- breezy
- brutal
- brute
- brutish
- bungling
- callous
- cantankerous
- carnal
- carnivorous
- cheap
- churlish
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- close
- close-fisted
- clownish
- clumsy
- coarse
- corporeal
- countrified
- covetous
- crass
- craving
- cruel
- currish
- degenerate
- degraded
- dense
- depraved
- desirous
- despisable
- detestable
- devouring
- dirty
- doltish
- dull
- eager
- edacious
- ensurient
- envious
- esurient
- feral
- ferine
- fleshly
- foul
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- green-eyed
- gross
- grudging
- gruff
- gulping
- guzzling
- heel
- hogging
- hoggish
- hungry
- ignoble
- ignominious
- ignorant
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- impatient
- impolite
- improper
- impure
- in the gutter
- indecent
- indelicate
- inelegant
- inferior
- insatiable
- insatiate
- insensitive
- instinctive
- intemperate
- inurbane
- irrational
- itchy
- jealous
- keen
- lewd
- loathsome
- loud
- loudmouthed
- loutish
- low
- low-down
- low-minded
- lowbred
- lowest
- lustful
- mean
- mercenary
- mindless
- miserly
- monstrous
- niggardly
- oafish
- obscene
- offensive
- omnivorous
- ornery
- out-of-line
- out-of-order
- outcast
- paltry
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- physical
- piggish
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- prehensile
- provincial
- prurient
- rank
- rapacious
- raunchy
- ravening
- ravenous
- raw
- repulsive
- ribald
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- sad
- sadistic
- scatological
- scummy
- scurvy
- selfish
- senseless
- sensual
- sexual
- shabby
- sleazy
- smutty
- sordid
- sorry
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- uncivilized
- unclean
- uncouth
- uncultured
- undiscriminating
- uneducated
- unfeeling
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- unpoised
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- unsophisticated
- unthinking
- unworthy
- vile
- voluptuous
- voracious
- vulgar
- worthless
- wretched
- yearning
Définition of swinish
Origin :- c.1200, from swine + -ish. Related: Swinishly; swinishness.
- As in loutish : adj boorish
- As in boorish : adj crude, awkward
- As in brutal : adj crude, rough
- As in brute : adj very strong; animal-like
- As in piggish : adj greedy
- As in contemptible : adj despicable, shameful
- As in covetous : adj greedy; very desirous
- As in greedy : adj desiring excessively
- As in gross : adj crude, vulgar
- As in beastly : adv savage; vulgar
- The swinish Jews, however, show the impurity of their minds everywhere.
- Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
- When you see a man who reminds you of a hog, be assured he has swinish habits.
- Extract from : « The Funny Side of Physic » by A. D. Crabtre
- He's as obstinate as a pig, but that's the only swinish thing about him.
- Extract from : « The Helpers » by Francis Lynde
- Fill your swinish skins with liquor, and trouble me no more this day.
- Extract from : « The Pirate Woman » by Aylward Edward Dingle
- We are all now under what Burke called "the hoofs of the swinish multitude."
- Extract from : « Man And Superman » by George Bernard Shaw
- She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
- Extract from : « Villa Elsa » by Stuart Henry
- Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
- Extract from : « The Iron Puddler » by James J. Davis
- To pursue pleasure, say the anti-utilitarians, is a swinish doctrine.
- Extract from : « John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works » by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison and Other Distinguished Authors
- Thus the forty-seven ronin were pre-eminently "righteous" when they debauched themselves with every swinish vice.
- Extract from : « The Gist of Japan » by R. B. Peery
- It disgusted the Romans beyond measure to witness the swinish excesses of the Germans.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) » by John Addington Symonds
Antonyms for swinish
- abstemious
- admirable
- admired
- benevolent
- charitable
- charming
- clean
- cultured
- decent
- delicate
- delightful
- exciting
- extravagant
- generous
- gentle
- giving
- good
- healthy
- hidden
- honest
- honorable
- humane
- inoffensive
- kind
- liberal
- likeable
- lovable
- loved
- mannerly
- mild
- modified
- moral
- net
- nice
- obscured
- part
- partial
- philanthropic
- pleasant
- pleasing
- polished
- polite
- refined
- respectable
- sensitive
- skinny
- slender
- smooth
- sophisticated
- superior
- thin
- vague
- weak
- worthy
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