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
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
Masked shepherds and shepherdesses danced upon the graves of a former generation, a new Arcadia was created in apish imitation and peopled with grimacing creatures who tripped about on tiptoe in their high-heeled shoes.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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