Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling swine.

Etymologies

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swine +‎ -like

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Examples

  • I will give you the attention the "swinelike media" isn't and never has given you.

    Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • The argument here is that (a) I, the underdog candidate have a compelling message that the voters would rally around once they heard it (b) You, the swinelike media, have deliberately ignored my compelling message, depriving the voters of the chance to judge me fairly (c) Therefore I must run for president so I can get on the nationally televised debates and state my case.

    Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • The argument here is that (a) I, the underdog candidate have a compelling message that the voters would rally around once they heard it (b) You, the swinelike media, have deliberately ignored my compelling message, depriving the voters of the chance to judge me fairly (c) Therefore I must run for president so I can get on the nationally televised debates and state my case.

    Printing: Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • I will give you the attention the "swinelike media" isn't and never has given you.

    Printing: Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • I will give you the attention the "swinelike media" isn't and never has given you.

    Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • The argument here is that (a) I, the underdog candidate have a compelling message that the voters would rally around once they heard it (b) You, the swinelike media, have deliberately ignored my compelling message, depriving the voters of the chance to judge me fairly (c) Therefore I must run for president so I can get on the nationally televised debates and state my case.

    Seeking Out Gravel Voters from South Carolina 2008

  • When suckling their young, swinelike all other animals-get attenuated.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Day after day, as the rest of the world applauds the swinelike intruders, he labors at his task of breaking their code, and after many futile leads he succeeds in at least interpreting the title of the manual, To Serve Man, and with this reassurance the Earthlings accept the benevolent visitors at face value, realizing that a millennium has arrived.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • Note: frendes the authors of this work: And I exhort the vnlearned, by reding to learne to be more skilfull, and to purge that swinelike grossenesse, that maketh the swete maierome not to smell to their delight.

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

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