Definition of "swinish"

swinish

/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/

adjective
comparative more swinish, superlative most swinish
1. Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
  Quotations
  […] They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute […]
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, [Act I, scene iv]
  Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.
  1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27