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单词 schweinerei
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Schweinerein.

Brit. /ˈʃvʌɪnərʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈʃvaɪnəˌraɪ/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Schweinerei.
Etymology: < German Schweinerei (late 17th cent.), lit. ‘piggishness’ < Schwein pig (see swine n.) + -erei -ery suffix. Compare earlier swinery n. 3.Not fully naturalized in English.
Obnoxious or objectionable qualities or behaviour; underhand, illicit, or scandalous activity. Also: an instance of this; a repulsive or insulting act, incident, or object. Cf. swinery n. 3.In quot. 1871 used satirically as the name of an imaginary state or territory.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil conduct > [noun]
unkindheadc1325
unkindnessc1390
disnaturalness1430
unnaturalness1534
unnaturality1548
sluttery1648
malversation1752
doggery1844
Schweinerei1896
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct
slavery1553
smaikry1573
cullionry1611
basery1614
sluttery1648
blackguardism1777
raffery1819
blackguardry1820
doggery1844
Schweinerei1896
1871 E. Yates Dr. Wainwright's Patient I. vii. 156 The Grand-Duke of Schweinerei was some one, at all events. Ex-Grand-Duke I should have said, recollecting that some years before, the people of Schweinerei..grew so disgusted at the ‘goings on’ of their reigning potentate, that they rose in revolt.]
1896 Harvard Monthly Feb. 221 Where he is most at home the young man treads the most dangerous paths, for in literature there is..only a hair's weight of sincerity to lose between manliness and Schweinerei.
1906 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 May (1972) II. 620 Reinhardt took not the smallest notice of either your letter or Barker's. Barker naturally regards this as a Schweinerei of the first order.
1938 L. Bemelmans Life Class i. vi. 98 Whenever a student brought in a reproduction of one of her paintings, Thaddeus would..shout: ‘Take it out, out with this Schweinerei’!
1965 Economist 25 Dec. 1433/3 Some Japanese producers were discovered selling out of line at the recent Canton Fair. But this schweinerei was swiftly stamped on.
1975 Times 7 Oct. 12/8 India..will outline the petty Schweinerei of Mrs. Gandhi.
2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 24 Typical British newspaper schweinerei.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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