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Recent Examples of swinish Another, Cora, is saddled with a swinish husband who tries to gaslight her whenever his chronic infidelity is exposed. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 27 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swinish
Adjective
  • People often stereotype crypto investors as reckless, young, or greedy.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • To be patient but not to be greedy, Lilian thought now, studying Maureen’s pale eyelids.
    Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • Plymouth’s two-door brute was built from 1964 to 1974, and within that decade, saw three generations.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 June 2025
  • The events on the ground maintain the basic, brute pleasures of the initial premise.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rogen lands a few funny lines, but the jokes mostly serve to distract from the point of the story: that freedom is ephemeral and easily corrupted, while humans are inherently piggish (as opposed to the other way around), seizing the first opportunity to take more than their share.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • The merged generative AI model is bloated and runs extremely slowly, possibly so piggish that using it on everyday tasks is exasperating and imprudent due to enormous delays while processing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Each of the disciples have their own secrets to bear, life taking them on some brutal pathways, the piece leaning into powerful introspection.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Just over a decade had passed since the end of the brutal twelve-year-long conflict, and street protests often ended in violence.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement Dawn of the Dead (1978) There's a credible case to be made that Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, about a biological weapon that causes residents of a small town to go feral, qualifies as a zombie movie.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
  • There are tribes of fast, feral predators that resemble the second coming of neanderthals.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025

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“Swinish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swinish. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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