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apish

[ey-pish] / ˈeɪ pɪʃ /
ADJECTIVE
affected
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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

The original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a big, apish man, with a certain fiery eloquence.

From Big Pill by Gallun, Raymond Z.