Word: swinish
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Miss Gordon played the wife of a celebrated, swinish, Svengali-ish actor who has trained her to be his servile leading lady. Despite his mistreatment of her as both wife and actress, she remains loyal to him. After his florid death, she remains loyal to his memory. He had prophesied that she could not act without him, and in duty bound she goes steadily downhill-till about four minutes before the final curtain...
...notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where...
Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...
...anything until now, punishments more terrible than the ten plagues of Egypt. Let their towns be more completely destroyed than Jerusalem. The object is to finish for all time with those whom, mindful of certain passages in the Holy Bible, I may rightly call the damned Boche, the damned swinish Boche...
...over these high spirits from which London never recovered. Its energy remained; its gayety did not. In the 18th century, London girls no longer went maying into the fields to be deflowered; instead May Day workmen cadged pennies around town like little boys; Elizabethan violence gave way to the swinish japes of the well-born "Mohocks" and Regency bucks. Industrialism thickened London's misery and thinned its spirits still more. Victorian street children (next to Victorian factory children) were the most wretched in England's history; and by the end of the century the mantle of the Mohocks...