as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
you really are a swine—you have no sense of decency at all!
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Recent Examples of swine
The fair culminates with the auction of swine, rabbits, goats, sheep and livestock on Saturday, Aug. 2.
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
Jess spent the previous week sorting her herd, selecting the six largest non-breeding swine.
—Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
The idea of putting him in a Kevin Smith movie is just pearls before swine.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
Less than three decades after Santayana cast that pearl before swine, Congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley cobbled the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law by President Herbert Hoover.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
Jess spent the previous week sorting her herd, selecting the six largest non-breeding swine.
—Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
The idea of putting him in a Kevin Smith movie is just pearls before swine.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2025
Less than three decades after Santayana cast that pearl before swine, Congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley cobbled the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law by President Herbert Hoover.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swine
Noun
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Robotic dogs and militant imagery stand in for violence and human invention turned destructive.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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In Toledo, a misread contributed to a Black man being mauled by a police K-9 dog after a traffic stop.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Check out its jerk chicken roll filled with carrots, cabbage, onions, cheese and jerk mayo; or try the jerk chicken wings and sides of rice and peas, plantains and cabbage.—
Loán Lake,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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No one says, 'This guy's a jerk, that guy is that,' or anything like that.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nothing sends chills down your spine like evil clowns, undead monsters and a filthy car.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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Someone should be impeaching this Laporta clown.—
Pol Ballus,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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After World War I, fur remained a status garment, though lower-cost furs like skunk, mole, and musquash entered mainstream winter wear.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Around 75% of Americans are exposed to raccoons, skunks and foxes — the very wildlife that commonly spread the fatal disease to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
Shiv Sudhakar,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Kentucky is home to various types of venomous snakes and spiders, but there's another pest in the commonwealth that's considered the most deadly animal in the world, despite its small size.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 Sep. 2025
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Modern lizards and snakes share this feature, while the tuatara has retained the older condition of a complete bar, making its skull stronger but less mobile.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Sep. 2025
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Research performed on rats found that when TPO was ingested, reproductive difficulties and negative effects on the endocrine (hormonal) systems followed.—
Morgan Fargo,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2025
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Inspectors shut down the Thai restaurant in Rancho Cordova aftering finding approximately 50 rat droppings below the water heater in the back of the kitchen and about 15 to 25 droppings throughout the corners of the cook’s line, the front counter in the lobby and the back of dry storage area.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The inference is that beyond just co-existing with the magnificent beast, the tribe are its descendants.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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This guy is a beast inside, in both phases, the run and the pass game.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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Ditto the Hammer Studios output of the 1950s and ’60s, Bernie Wrightson’s definitive illustrations of the Creature, oodles of Gothic literature, Roger Corman’s Poe pictures, and Mario Bava’s retina-searing color creep shows.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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But some see broader social dangers at work as such ideology creeps into national politics.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Swine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swine. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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