What does swinish mean?
Swinish means Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased..
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/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/ · adjective
Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased..
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.
Use swinish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swinish means Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased..
Common synonyms include piggish, hoggish, swinelike, piglike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
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