apish
Example Sentences
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The shoulders were apish too, and the widely flaring blades of the pelvis were as primitive as Lucy’s—but the bottom of the same pelvis looked like a modern human’s.
From National Geographic • Sep. 10, 2015
According to evolutionary theorists , we probably owe these unsavory blemishes to our having lost our apish pelts too rapidly for our own good.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2011
The original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
To a god the wisdom/of the wisest man/sounds apish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here it is evident that the Vedic antagonism between Indras and Vishṇus is reproduced in a zoological and entirely apish form.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
