apery
Example Sentences
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The only difference between him and most former presidential candidates is that his apery is more apparent.
From Time
But I just know it’s a word you can make out of ‘aperies.’
From The New Yorker
If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
From Project Gutenberg
I saw there many women, dressed without regard to the season or the demands of the place, in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery, of European fashions.
From Project Gutenberg
It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
