What is the meaning of swinish?

adjective

  • Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
    • usage: "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
  • Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.
    • usage: "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
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