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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
Little-Turnstile, High Holborn, London, Spence turned out a penny weekly called Pig’s Meat; or lessons for the swinish multitude.
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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
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
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The song is a painfully cynical look at music fandom, the record industry, and how tragic deaths are exploited for cash by greedy executives.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
12 Jan. 2026
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Carrey portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, a cantankerous, greedy old man visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him the error of his ways.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
11 Dec. 2025
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Josh Jacobs ran with brute force on high volume.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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There’s not much on 1 IN A MILLION that will blow you away; the beats are of the same unmiraculous mold—Michigan brute force meets Louisiana jig—that has been holding down Florida street rap for the last half-decade, and the lyrics rarely jump off the page on their own.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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Between wading or boating into choppy surf, baking in the hot sun, and getting doused in salty spray, the elements are brutal on the human body and the gear meant to withstand them.—
Francesca Krempa,
Outside,
9 Jan. 2026
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Phạm Lockwood also spoke with Huan Nguyen, the sole survivor of a massacre of a South Vietnamese family in Saigon, a brutal attack allegedly orchestrated by Capt.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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To start with the movie’s strongest asset, Fiennes is magnificent — sinewy and feral in appearance but erudite in manner, his isolation and years of living rough having done little to curb the magniloquence of a posh education.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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In 1998, Herrington heard an interview, on NPR, with Rick Varner, who hunted feral hogs for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Swinish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swinish. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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