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
But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic.
From Time Magazine Archive
To a god the wisdom/of the wisest man/sounds apish.
From Time Magazine Archive
The droning of this arrant humbug drives as many of the audience away as the zany's merry pranks and roguish whiskers and apish tricks have drawn together.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
