Swinish vs Deplorable - What's the difference?
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Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
*:Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.
Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
(senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.