Careful Words

swinish (adj.)

Swinish gluttony

Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast,

But with besotted base ingratitude

Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 776.

  Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 335.