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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
Consider this evilmeister’s brazen acts of treason and revenge, unbounded deceit, swinish immorality and negative role modeling.
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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.
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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.
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Sarah Lyall,
New York Times,
27 May 2022
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
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Nature with its blind eyes and greedy fingers.
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At his sentencing in 2024, Bailyn, the prosecutor, described Lorquet as a greedy criminal who fleeced his country at one of its weakest moments in history.
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The industry's answer is brute force.
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But Garvey, who started with the Dodgers in 1969, said weather is just one of many factors that have led to more home runs in today’s game, which has abandoned finesse in favor of brute force.
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The Pork Belly A breakfast diner that added piggish flair to Kuna’s dining scene is no more.
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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.
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His first strikeout was part of a brutal sequence.
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The injury is obviously a brutal blow to Canada's starting 11.
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Almost immediately, her half-feral dragon attacks Moondancer.
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Warrior Cats is based on Erin Hunter’s feline book series that follows the adventures and drama of multiple clans of feral cats.
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“Swinish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swinish. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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