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

To a god the wisdom/of the wisest man/sounds apish.

From Time Magazine Archive

But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Renouncing all these frivolous manners, all these theatrical caricatures of our times, let us be more sincere; less of courtiers, more serious, more reflective, and less apish.

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various