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

Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness."

From Time Magazine Archive

It has always been noted in extenuation that literary satire thrives on vile bodies and that swinishness justifies a measure of pique.

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

To go on with that which happened in the morning—that's ... that's swinishness, bestiality, and unworthy of a man who respects himself.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert