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Adjective swinish has 2 senses
- boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
Antonym: refined (indirect, via unrefined)
- hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish - resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
Antonym: abstemious (indirect, via gluttonous)
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