Examples of swinish in a Sentence

These examples are automatically compiled from online sources to illustrate current usage. Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Recent Examples on the Web 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
  • In the film, three greedy people—including Nick Perry, the local weatherman and lotto announcer (John Travolta)—attempt to rig the game.
    Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Bellingham reproached the Ballon d'Or favourite for being greedy, but Ancelotti only saw positives in the exchange.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • As Apple’s paper and others suggest, the current approach to LLMs has significant limitations that cannot be overcome by brute force.
    Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • What’s needed to achieve this in the US is brute lobbying power.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • Surrounded by a dysfunctional family and a piggish boss (Stellan Skarsgård), Justine is lonely, exasperated, and seething.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The incident evokes the brutal post-Soviet years of murky executions in Russia among the political and business mafias.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The brothers were convicted in 1996 of murder with special circumstances in the brutal shotgun killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, inside their Beverly Hills home.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Unlike dozens of feral cats found dead on farms with outbreaks, these domestic cats didn’t roam around herds, lapping up milk that teemed with virus.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • With the parents gone, the boys are practically feral.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024

Thesaurus Entries Near swinish

Cite this Entry

“Swinish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swinish. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!