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swinishness

/swahy-nish/US // ˈswaɪ nɪʃ //

小资情调,大洋彼岸,小气,小资

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like or befitting swine; hoggish.
    • : brutishly coarse, gross, or sensual.

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Examples

  • But the three men were far too deeply sunk in their swinish sleep for any voice to wake them.

  • Porcine, por′sīn, adj. pertaining to or resembling swine: swinish.

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

  • His furious little swinish eyes blinking through the blood which dripped over them, he hurled himself straight onward.

  • They also grunt among themselves, without any external cause; but merely to express their swinish sympathy.