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apery

noun as in aping

noun as in mimicry

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noun as in mimicry

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Example Sentences

She got her substitute vocabulary word right but misspelled “apery” to conclude the day’s action.

The only difference between him and most former presidential candidates is that his apery is more apparent.

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It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better.

As Stenhouse had formerly indicated, no principle has been discovered to which the purgative properties can be attributed, unless it be a green oleo-resin turned red by nitric acid, obtained from the fruit by Apery.

Schoppe, the satiric chorus of Jean Paul's romance of Titan, makes his appearance at a certain masked ball, carrying in front of him a glass case, in which the ball is remasked, repeated, and again reflected in a mirror behind, by a set of puppets, ludicrously aping the apery of the courtiers, whose whole life and outward manifestation was but a body-mask mechanically moved with the semblance of real life and action.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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