Definitions for swinish

swinish swin·ish

Spelling: [swahy-nish]
IPA: /ˈswaɪ nɪʃ/

Swinish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in swinish (hiinssw).

Definitions for swinish

adjective

  1. like or befitting swine; hoggish.
  2. brutishly coarse, gross, or sensual.

Origin of swinish

Middle English word dating back to 1150-1200; See origin at swine, -ish1

Examples for swinish

The swinish Jews, however, show the impurity of their minds everywhere.

It disgusted the Romans beyond measure to witness the swinish excesses of the Germans.

Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.

She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.

Fill your swinish skins with liquor, and trouble me no more this day.

Thus the forty-seven ronin were pre-eminently "righteous" when they debauched themselves with every swinish vice.

He's as obstinate as a pig, but that's the only swinish thing about him.

We are all now under what Burke called "the hoofs of the swinish multitude."

When you see a man who reminds you of a hog, be assured he has swinish habits.

To pursue pleasure, say the anti-utilitarians, is a swinish doctrine.

Word Value for swinish
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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