swinish

adjective

ˈswī-nish How to pronounce swinish (audio)
Definition of swinishnext
1
as in greedy
having a huge appetite the more swinish diners attacked the all-you-can-eat buffet with gusto

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as in brute
having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal we were appalled by the rude and swinish behavior some people thought it was all right to display in public

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Recent Examples of swinish Consider this evilmeister’s brazen acts of treason and revenge, unbounded deceit, swinish immorality and negative role modeling. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026 Little-Turnstile, High Holborn, London, Spence turned out a penny weekly called Pig’s Meat; or lessons for the swinish multitude. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025 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
  1. greedy
  2. brute
  3. piggish
  4. brutal
  5. feral
Adjective
  • The current system also supports contexts of up to 1,024 tokens and proves an integer version of the model under greedy decoding.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Who Hosts The Shower Some people are adamant that the immediate family of a bride or parent-to-be should never host the shower, suggesting that such a move seems self-serving or like a greedy call for gifts.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of greedy
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  • No headliner has ever been an ex–drug dealer whose entire mythos is wrapped up in transmuting block-boy brilliance into boardroom brute force.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Rather than putting the rock into the arms of one of his reliable running backs and brute-forcing the 2 yards, Danielson kept the ball in fifth-year quarterback Maddux Madsen’s hands.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of brute
Adjective
  • Grabs a ketchup bottle and garnishes his face, before squirting mustard into his hateful, piggish eyes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.
    — Michael Deeds January 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Jan. 2026
Definition of piggish
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  • This version, though, is brutal, his voice acerbic and his guitar serrated.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
  • And through eight games this season, those two words have defined the majority of the third-year wing’s experience on the court for the Chicago Bulls, who are 1-7 after a brutal trio of road losses in the last week.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • That cute little feral furball was mean as hell and bit, scratched, and ultimately abandoned the family.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • In the most recent film, human beings become feral primitives in a classic role reversal.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of feral

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“Swinish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swinish. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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