swinishness

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Both the 1976 strain and the new H1N1 strain are closely related to viruses carried by pigs, making some wonder whether that "swinishness" makes their vaccines more likely to cause unusual effects.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2009

It makes for 31 scenes in 16 possible permutations�all on the author's familiar theme of suburban swinishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But since his appearance in 1954, critics and readers have remarked the spreading "swinishness" of Kingsley Amis characters�as well as the distaste the author seems to feel for his own creations.

From Time Magazine Archive

RAY by Barry Hannah Knopf; 113 pages; $7.95 The hero of this deft assemblage is a doctor who practices in Tuscaloosa, Ala. What he practices, chiefly, is high-spirited swinishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commit some act of genuine swinishness, so that you may put a little ginger into your life.”

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson