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1. The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased.
   "He stuck to it that the Russian peasant is a swine and likes swinishness, and that to get him out of his swinishness one must have authority, and there is none; one must have the stick, and we have become so liberal that we have all of and a sudden replaced the stick that served us for a thousand years by lawyers and model prisons, where the worthless, stinking peasant is fed on good soup and has a fixed allowance of cubic feet of air."

Type of: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness