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swinish

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈswaɪnɪʃ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted hiinsswStarts with SEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

Word origin

From Middle English swinisse, swynys, swynyse; equivalent to swine + -ish.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
  • […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]
  • Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.

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