单词 | swinish |
释义 | swinish (once / 26207 pages) adj WORD FAMILY swinish: swinishly+/swine: swines, swinish USAGE EXAMPLESIt was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. John Gardner, Grendel(1971) Much that has been charged against the school in the form of swinish sensuality is the grossest slander. Hyde, William De Witt, The Five Great Philosophies of Life(2012) On the other hand, the Hessian mercenaries irritated all classes--it was the armed occupation of a conquered territory by a swinish conqueror. Wingfield, Lewis, My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of I...(2012) 1adj resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy swinish slavering over food Syn hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink 2adj ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude Syn boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth |
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