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

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

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

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

What actually drove me out of the country was the swinishness in certain indispensable arrangements, and then the cheating in the hotels, and the tolls.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno