apish

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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

It is while the apish comedian is stamping around making chests and defiantly crying: "I'm a machador, I'm a machador!" that his real opponent, a large fat steer, cautiously muzzles up to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman.

From Time Magazine Archive

He goes on to say that false humour is given to little apish tricks, and buffooneries.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan