swinish

• “Burke's phrase of "the swinish multitude," applied to mobs, was then in every body's mouth; and, accordingly, after my brother had recovered from his first astonishment at this audacious mutiny, he made us several sweeping bows that looked very much like tentative rehearsals of a sweeping _fusillade_, and then addressed us in a very brief speech, of which we could distinguish the words _pearls_ and _swinish multitude_, but uttered in a very low key, perhaps out of some lurking consideration for the two young strangers.”

  Autobiographical Sketches

• “While the foreigner speaks and writes of superstition, of heathenism, of abominable rites now passing away, the native Hindu press is equally emphatic in its condemnation of what it calls the swinish indulgence of the Anglo-Saxon, his beer-drinking and his gluttony, his craze for money and material power, his disgust at philosophy and all intellectual aspiration, his half-savage love for the chase and the destruction of animal life.”

  Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

• “And yet the car was apparently pretty easy to drive—according to the lucky, swinish few who have driven them.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It

• “Martin SkeggWilliam Morris spoke of catering "to the swinish luxury of the rich", something that the five-star hotel has been doing since the words Savoy and Ritz entered the lexicon as bywords for opulence.”

  The Guardian: TV highlights 29/06/2011: Killer Tigers | Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe | Finding Amelia | The Apprentice | Afghanistan: The Battle For Helmand | 24 Hours in A&E

• “[UK Parliament, 1741-2] (1c) [...] among all manner of bovine, swinish and feathered cattle.”

  What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar

• “And you can bet that 37% reflects a lot of women who are browbeaten by their swinish husbands into liking Limbaugh.”

  Think Progress » Rush Limbaugh: ‘I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it.’

• “The swinish drunkenness in which I had lived for months (this was accompanied by the sense of degradation and the old feeling of conviction of sin) was the last and best, and I could see for myself what it was worth.”

  Chapter 12

• “I abandoned myself to the life, and developed the misconception that the secret of John Barleycorn lay in going on mad drunks, rising through the successive stages that only an iron constitution could endure to final stupefaction and swinish unconsciousness.”

  Chapter 12

• “I waited for the skies to part and a lightning bolt to strike the swinish miscreant dead on the spot.”

  2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog

• ““A humble childhood skill that proved most useful,” I said, scratching away to the accompaniment of blissful swinish grunting.”

  2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog

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