aping

Synonyms for aping

noun mimicry

noun. mime

"imitation, mimicry," 1680s, verbal noun from ape (v.).

Put it on, put it on: I don't want you to be aping lady-airs.

I do not offer them to you, because I would not that you thought that I was aping magnanimity.

She insisted on artists painting their age and not aping the dead past.

He knows we're thieves, so what's the use of our aping honest men.

But it must not be supposed that in this reformation there was any aping of Anglicanism.

It made him conspicuous; it looked as though he were aping the gentleman at the last.

I know it is no aping of a fashion that has brought you here.

This was not on its part simply an aping of aristocratic customs.

Was Elsie aping this demure demeanor because her father was present?

The prioress is conventional and weak, aping courtly manners.