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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not.

From Time Magazine Archive

It saith thou wert but shadow born of nought, But vain creation of an apish rhyme, While, Fashion’s fool, my strain’d invention sought To better them who best did please the time.

From Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost by Blaeu, Willem