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He did, however, contribute to a pre-election essay in The Review about the campaign, in which he described Mr. Trump as having captured the Republican Party and referred to his “contempt for serious politics” and his “swinishness.”

What Frank of NJ thinks of as "masculinity," that part of him that those prissy Liberals have suppressed, is simply swinishness; what he thinks of "weak and effeminate" is what most people call "civil."

“Pichul was a director with ambitious vision and great style, but it is inconceivable to make films of such great style in an age of petty swinishness,” Dmitry Bykov, the Russian biographer, wrote this week in the newspaper Sobesednik.

But once Jobs gets rich, he starts behaving with slimy swinishness, too, terrorizing and humiliating employees, wallowing in his own imagined grandeur and brushing aside an earnest young woman who claims, correctly, to be carrying his child.

Indeed, the judge in the Holyland case used similar language to the protesters, denouncing the defendants’ “covetousness”, “swinishness” and “betrayal of public trust”.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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