单词 | schweinerei |
释义 | Schweinerein. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1896 |
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