SWINISH Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

swinish

adjective

ˈswī-nish

Definition of swinish

as in greedy

having a huge appetite the more swinish diners attacked the all-you-can-eat buffet with gusto

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as in brute

having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal we were appalled by the rude and swinish behavior some people thought it was all right to display in public

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Recent Examples of swinish Consider this evilmeister’s brazen acts of treason and revenge, unbounded deceit, swinish immorality and negative role modeling. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026 Little-Turnstile, High Holborn, London, Spence turned out a penny weekly called Pig’s Meat; or lessons for the swinish multitude. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025 Another, Cora, is saddled with a swinish husband who tries to gaslight her whenever his chronic infidelity is exposed. — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 27 May 2022

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Adjective

John Wayne and Gary Cooper, like Ken-san, often played anachronistic loners from a disappearing Arcadia that was being destroyed by hard-nosed modernizers—greedy bankers, railway owners, big-city politicians.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Katz said the rapid and steep rate movements give investors a chance to buy from the fearful and sell to the greedy.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of greedy

Adjective

As rules and institutions constrain less and brute power matters more, countries will seek partners to help them blunt sanctions, access critical technologies, compensate for military weaknesses, expand their room for maneuver, and resist isolation.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Security features include free SSL certificates, daily off-site backups, DDoS protection, malware scanning, a Web Application Firewall, brute-force protection, and two-factor authentication.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of brute

Adjective

While uptight Elinor excels at hiding her feelings for the similarly taciturn Edward, Marianne goes wild (nearly feral, really) when new neighbor Willoughby saves her from physical injury (literally sweeping her off her feet and a wincing ankle).

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
The murder of the family is graphic enough, but what happens to Ethan and Ivy is far more perverse, especially when Ivy’s apparently dead body is defiled by one of the feral desert gang members.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026

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