swinish
Like a hog
Swinish means resembling or characteristic of swine—piggish, coarse, or brutishly greedy.
The word applies to behavior rather than appearance: swinish table manners, swinish indulgence.
It carries strong contempt, suggesting someone has degraded themselves to animal level.
Literary and old-fashioned.
Offensively ill-mannered
- crassCrudely lacking refinement
- vulgarCrude or indecent
- uncouthLacking good manners
- coarseRough in texture
loutish · churlish · cloddish · oafish · crude · beastly · ill-mannered · indelicate
Domesticated swine for meat
snout · trotter · grunting · rooting · sty · wallowing · tusked · bristled
Excessively wanting more
- voraciousExtremely eager to consume
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
- gorgingEating greedily, excessively
guzzling · stuffing · overindulgent · wolfish · gourmandizing · bingeing · excess · rapacious
rude
Offensively ill-mannered
coarse · loutish · churlish · cloddish · oafish · crude · beastly · ill-mannered · indelicate · graceless
pig
Domesticated swine for meat
piglet · snout · trotter · grunting · rooting · sty · wallowing · tusked · bristled · pork
greedy
Excessively wanting more
- voraciousExtremely eager to consume
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
gorging · guzzling · stuffing · overindulgent · wolfish · gourmandizing · bingeing · excess · rapacious · grasping
dirty
Not clean
mucky · foul · wallowing · unkempt · unwashed · grubby · soiled · slothful · sloppy · unclean
swinishrefined
Purified or cultured
cultured · genteel · polished · elegant · sophisticated
swinishabstemious
Practicing restraint with indulgences
temperate · moderate · restrained · ascetic · self-denying