adjective
1. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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was boorish and insensitive
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the loutish manners of a bully
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her stupid oafish husband
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aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
• Syn: ↑boorish, ↑loutish, ↑neanderthal, ↑neandertal, ↑oafish
• Similar to: ↑unrefined
• Derivationally related forms: ↑boorishness (for: ↑boorish)
2. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
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piggish table manners
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the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
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swinish slavering over food
• Similar to: ↑gluttonous
Useful english dictionary. 2012.