swinish
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Swinish Sirs: Your issue of March 30, end of second complete paragraph, has�"In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive."
From Time Magazine Archive
Swinish, swī′nish, adj. like or befitting swine: gross: brutal.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Chase from your hospitable dwelling Swinish souls that ever crave; Virtue they can ne'er excel in, Gluttons never can be brave.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
It bore his old pen name, Robert Slender, with the added title, O. S. M., interpreted later to mean "One of the Swinish Multitude."
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
