Synonyms for swinish

Synonyms for (adj) swinish

Synonyms: hoggish, porcine, piggish, piggy, swinish

Definition: 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

Similar words: gluttonous

Definition: given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink

Usage: over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands; a gluttonous debauch; a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure


Synonyms: swinish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, loutish, boorish

Definition: 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

Similar words: unrefined

Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth

Usage: how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?


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