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apish

adjective as in affected

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He came shuffling forward with a hundred apish conges and chers milors, to express his happiness at seeing Lord Dalgarno again.

He was broadly built, with long apish arms and a mighty chest, but with lean loins and thin bandy legs.

Vanity and the desire of showing off play no small part in the wrongdoings of apes and apish men and women.

That apish-looking man there, with the long beard and the loose trousers—he is the woman's brother.

Even Plutarch himself laments his daughter for the little apish tricks of her infancy.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apish, such as: emulative, and slavish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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