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apish

[ay-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

But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He 378 had become unconsciously apish with excitement.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett




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