monkey
Example Sentences
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Random observations on the silliness of all the action—“That monkey just used his cuteness for crime!”—are about as close as we get to humor.
Her “It” girls often keep company with a coterie of tiny monkeys, kittens or creatures with confections for heads.
From Los Angeles Times
“Makeup! You know Papa will bust a gut if you show up with your face all marked up red as a monkey’s bottom.”
From Literature
Every type of artillery had a nickname—toad, monkey, bee—as did every piece of equipment and every type of transportation, and sometimes the French slang terms were different entirely from the English ones.
From Literature
In “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” hundreds of little monkeys invaded the raft where Aguirre is half dead, drifting on the Amazon.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
